Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1907 — Thackeray’s Pantomime. [ARTICLE]

Thackeray’s Pantomime.

William Makepeace Thackeray was always too genial, too generous, too open handed, to be an accumulator of this world’s goods, and in spite of the large earnings of his pen he died a poor man. Shortly before his death his friend, John Leech, the cartoonist, called upon him and found him in his study writing—writing and sighing at the monotony of his work. “Why don’t you have a holiday,” said Leech, “and take your girls to the seaside?” The great novelist made no verbal answer, but, rising slowly, plunged his hands to the very bottom of bis pockets, brought these receptacles out, shook them vigorously without eliciting a rattle of coin, replaced them and then resumed his seat.