"Thumper" Quotes from Famous Books
... "That's a thumper!" replied the old man; "you have wished nothing of the kind. Oh, Gus, haven't you conquered the horrid habit of story-telling that used to make you the laughing-stock of all the young men in the shop. And you, my little Two-to-the-Pound, what a time ... — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various |