British Commonwealth of Nations: Irish Jaunt

Hilarious Irish students at the University of Belfast made much of a rotund, distinguished and almost equally hilarious visitor. They presented him with a "puddy hat," and he clapped it on his head. They called his attention to a clay pipe stuck in the brim, and he cried that he accepted it as a tribute to his chief, that inveterate pipe smoker, Premier Baldwin. They gave their puddy-hatted guest a shillalah. And while he brandished it, they drew him about the campus in an Irish "jaunting car."*...

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