Show JOKE WAS ONt ONO THACKERAY rebuke to tuft hunter recoiled on the novelist justin mccarthy says that thackeray often created erroneous imbres of himself by indulging in irony in the presence of people who were incapable of understanding it one curious instance which he gives la Is this thail eray had been dining at the garrick and was talking in the smoking room after dinner with varl ous club acquaintances one of them happening to have left his cigar case at home thackeray although disliking the man who was a notorious tuft hunter good natu offered him one of his cigars the man accepted the cigar but not finding it to his liking had the bad taste to say to thackeray I 1 say thackeray 3 0 i wont won t mind my saying that I 1 don t much of this cigar athael eray no doubt irritated at the man s ungraciousness and bear ing in mind his tuft hunting predl lec eions quietly responded you ought my good fellow tor for it was given to me by a lord instead however of detect ing the irony the dolt immediately attributed the remark to snobbishness on thackeray s part and to the end of his days went about declaring that athael eray had boasted that he had been given a cigar by a lord |