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!