Describes an evening spent with Charley Moorhouse and others in their boarding house. Transcription: Presently they had supper ? a very good notion of a bachelor ?s supper too. Oysters stewed, hare and chickens, champagne for accompaniment. Then followed more singing &c. Previously however divers astonishing choruses had been perpetrated, some not of the most decent. One quaint one weak thus. First Singer commenced, suiting action to word ?ǣOne finger and thumb keep moving To drive dull care away! ? Others joined in, and increasing in exhortation ?ǣtwo ? fingers followed, and finally it reac
Describes an evening spent with Charley Moorhouse and others in their boarding house. Transcription: Presently they had supper ? a very good notion of a bachelor ?s supper too. Oysters stewed, hare and chickens, champagne for accompaniment. Then followed more singing &c. Previously however divers astonishing choruses had been perpetrated, some not of the most decent. One quaint one weak thus. First Singer commenced, suiting action to word ?ǣOne finger and thumb keep moving To drive dull care away! ? Others joined in, and increasing in exhortation ?ǣtwo ? fingers followed, and finally it reached ?ǣTwo arms and two legs keep moving Keep Moving! ? ? On which they were all jumping up and down like-insane Shaking Quakers, in a Terrifically ludicrous manner. The Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 4, page 16, January 18, 1852 . 18 January 1852. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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