Regarding a story told by Jesse Haney about a beggar he and Sol Eytinge encountered on the street. Transcription: would have delighted Charles Lamb. It is extremely characteristic instance of Sol Eytinge ?s charity. [Jesse] Haney was accompanying him up the Sixth Avenue (on Sunday last) when an Irish beggar of very equivocal sobriety accosted them with the customary whine of mendicancy ?ǣGentlemen have pity on a poor &c &c I ?m cowld, ? and hunghry ? and naked ?! &c &c. ? ?ǣIt ?s all right, ? it ?s all right! ? says Sol. ?ǣNo, gintlemen it ?s not all right! I am cowld ? &c &c! ? ?ǣIf I k
Regarding a story told by Jesse Haney about a beggar he and Sol Eytinge encountered on the street. Transcription: would have delighted Charles Lamb. It is extremely characteristic instance of Sol Eytinge ?s charity. [Jesse] Haney was accompanying him up the Sixth Avenue (on Sunday last) when an Irish beggar of very equivocal sobriety accosted them with the customary whine of mendicancy ?ǣGentlemen have pity on a poor &c &c I ?m cowld, ? and hunghry ? and naked ?! &c &c. ? ?ǣIt ?s all right, ? it ?s all right! ? says Sol. ?ǣNo, gintlemen it ?s not all right! I am cowld ? &c &c! ? ?ǣIf I know you ?ll be drunk and in the gutter in five minutes! ? says Sol, giving him a quarter dollar, and moving on. Haney, who had been searching his pocket for cents, had also moved round so as to become over-conscious [word crossed out] of the smell of spirits; and [word crossed out] as he and Sol continued their walk remonstrated with Sol on his injudicious charity. ?ǣBut, ? says Sol, quietly, and perfectly unconscious of the peculiarity of his reply, ?ǣhe drinks, you know, and hasn ?t got any money. And I always pity a fellow who drinks! ? Farther on some boys informed them that the man was ?ǣa regular old sucker! ? And on Sol, presently, inviting Haney to drink, it appeared that he had but another shilling in the world! The second story is short and droll. A Presbyterian preacher has delivered a sermon on what Haney felicitously termed ?ǣthe inherent d__nation of everybody, ? and is present, where an individual gives Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 8, page 114, December 7, 1856 . 7 December 1856. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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