Thackeray's Relations.
It is hard to let one'a pen flow freely, without cutting to the hearts of one's best friends. Sometimes our relatives Buffer. It was the novlist, Thackeray's fate to fall into thin pi ght. Thackeray, be it known, had fceventeen uncles and annts. Either lirge collateral security for posterity. A family o! Bfventern children spldom hang 3 together. They BC.itter for individual procperity and the general welfare of all. Thackeray never half knew v.-ho his relations were pnd where they were. Now, the most exquisitely ludicroiH lines that Thackeray ever wrote were in ridicule of the public orator At Cambridge, W. M. Crick. After the lines had been written and published Thackeray learned, half to hia amusement and dismay, that the subject of his satire waa his own firat cousiu.— The Ingle&idc.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1973, 28 February 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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134Thackeray's Relations. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1973, 28 February 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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