Tony Carlucci stopped hamming it up and straightened importantly in my chair.
"Tinker's Dam"
Joseph Tinker
Feb 23, 1887. In another note he speaks of the "vague dim flash of splendid hamming-birds through a fog."
"Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009