Thackeray and Tlti'eb. —Thackeray wa3 not a humourist iu tlie sense that Dickens was. nor a wit in the sense that Jerrold as > but he now and then saiil a good thing in a quiet way. Ho was pestered on one occasion while in America by a young gentleman of an inquiring turn of mind as to what was though' of this person and that person in England. " Mr. Thackeray,'" he asked, " what do they think of Tupper?" "lht-y don't think oi Tupper," was the reply.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4296, 20 August 1875, Page 2
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