-At a certain printing-office •where a work of the celebrate! humorist Theodore Hook was being printed, there was an old compositor who went by the nick-name of “ Twaddle.” In completing a sheet of one of Mr. Honk’s novels, the copy was given out in small “ takes” or portions, to each one of which the compositor’s name was as usual appended. When the proof was sent out to the author, there appeared a lino drawn down the margin of a certain page, with the word “ Twaddle” at the side. ?dr. Hook received his proof, read it, and brought it back to the office, with the remark'that, “though he was not above criticism, bo did not think the reader was qv.its the man to make it.”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 618, 20 February 1874, Page 2
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