"Oh!" replied Hook, "I had determined to come, weather or no."—Life of Rev. R. H. Barham.
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.
Hook told a story of a gentleman driving his Irish servant in his cab, and saying to him, half jocularly, half in anger:
"If the gallows had its due, you rascal, where would you be now?"
"Faith, then, your honour, it's riding in this cab I'd be, all alone by myself may be!"
TOM MOORE.—LOSING A HAT.
Words cannot do justice to Theodore Hook's talent for improvisation: it was perfectly wonderful. He was one day sitting at the pianoforte, singing an extempore song as fluently as if he had had the words and music before him, when Moore happened to look into the room, and Hook instantly introduced a long parenthesis,
"And here's Mr. Moore,