A Humorist Piqued


THEODORE HOOK was relating to his friend, Charles Mathews, how, on one

occasion, when supping in the company of Peake, the latter

surreptitiously removed from his plate several slices of tongue; and,

affecting to be very much annoyed by such practical joking, Hook

concluded with the question, Now, Charles, what would you do to

anybody who treated you in such a manner?--Do? exclaimed Mathews, if

any man meddled with my tongue, I'd lick him!



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