Describes a drinking party at his boarding house. Transcription: More tipsy Fooleries. going up to my room, discovered that my bed had been converted into what in England boys call ?ǣan apple-pies ? one. So I determined on humors of revenge and made two heaps of [James] Morris and Billington ?s [Frank] Cahill ?s bed-clothes in their respective rooms, strewing a few man-traps in the shape of upset chairs &c., about. Then I went to bed. Meantime the fellows kept it up below considerably. I could hear [George] Boweryem ? singing. When he went to bed, a little inebriated, if not more so, [Arthur]
Describes a drinking party at his boarding house. Transcription: More tipsy Fooleries. going up to my room, discovered that my bed had been converted into what in England boys call ?ǣan apple-pies ? one. So I determined on humors of revenge and made two heaps of [James] Morris and Billington ?s [Frank] Cahill ?s bed-clothes in their respective rooms, strewing a few man-traps in the shape of upset chairs &c., about. Then I went to bed. Meantime the fellows kept it up below considerably. I could hear [George] Boweryem ? singing. When he went to bed, a little inebriated, if not more so, [Arthur] Ledger proposed entering his room and stealing his pocket-book and watch. On attempting they found his door locked. So Cahill knocked again and again, until the neighboring door opened and Mrs. Kinnie appeared, denouncing the doings of the party and inquiring ?ǣif, after they had made that poor little Devil drunk, they couldn ?t leave him alone and let people go to sleep Cahill insisting on knocking, she threatened to throw water over him and brought her pitcher. He kept on, intending if she fulfilled her threat to enter her room and to assault the Doctor, who lay still in bed and wouldn ?t stir, for all his wife ?s exhortations, which Boweryem heard to great advantage. She talked about ?ǣthem devils, ? declared that Boweryem ?s life wasn ?t safe among ?em, denouncing particularly ?ǣthat Tom Gunn, ? probably thinking the Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 115, March 24, 1860 . 24 March 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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