Describes the boarders at his boarding house. Transcription: in a cabinet-making establishment, has a laugh upon which his pretensions to humour are chiefly based, as exhilarating as the sound of a watchman ?s rattle. Talks loud and laughs louder, insomuch that when he is at table it would be next to impossible for any persons, if at all sensitive to clamor, to converse together. Utters mere trash and approbative jocularities of a second-rate order, repeating them twice over and carrying all off successfully by dint of springing his watchman's rattle laugh. Is considered by the more feeble-mi
Describes the boarders at his boarding house. Transcription: in a cabinet-making establishment, has a laugh upon which his pretensions to humour are chiefly based, as exhilarating as the sound of a watchman ?s rattle. Talks loud and laughs louder, insomuch that when he is at table it would be next to impossible for any persons, if at all sensitive to clamor, to converse together. Utters mere trash and approbative jocularities of a second-rate order, repeating them twice over and carrying all off successfully by dint of springing his watchman's rattle laugh. Is considered by the more feeble-minded the life of the establishment, very few venturing to shower bath his pretensions by repartee which would not be difficult. I've thrown a brick through his cucumber frame occasionally when interfered with. Happily he sits at t'other end of the table. Name Le Blond; grave looking if he could keep his mouth shut, meager-ish visaged, and I think inclining to gray hair, looks something like an exceedingly common place Carlyle, if such a contradiction can be supposed and portraits do not lie. A feminine employee in the establishment he belongs to, plump, not uncomely, otherwise indistinguishable. Miss Clarke, dark haired, American-featured, with a rather projecting under-jaw, otherwise might be considered good-looking. Has a mother who don't show at table, both occupying the big back parlor, erst Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 48, July 9, 1859 . 9 July 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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