Regarding attending a lecture by Mort Thomson as 'Doesticks.' Transcription: [Matty Edwards] once said something anent the lecture and Grace [Eldredge] and once yawned or gaped. The conclusion of the 'poem' offered Doestickian advice to wooers, to the effect of commending ceaseless persistence. Bashfulness was scanted, if refused once, 'ax' again next day, quoth Mort [Thomas]; if you delay some other 'feller' may step in and 'cut you out': 'she may change her mind on the way to the church.' I put this down only for the live accompaniment. When Mort was at an appropriate juncture, [Jesse] Hane
Regarding attending a lecture by Mort Thomson as 'Doesticks.' Transcription: [Matty Edwards] once said something anent the lecture and Grace [Eldredge] and once yawned or gaped. The conclusion of the 'poem' offered Doestickian advice to wooers, to the effect of commending ceaseless persistence. Bashfulness was scanted, if refused once, 'ax' again next day, quoth Mort [Thomas]; if you delay some other 'feller' may step in and 'cut you out': 'she may change her mind on the way to the church.' I put this down only for the live accompaniment. When Mort was at an appropriate juncture, [Jesse] Haney declares he heard a clap of approbation proceeding from the pudgy hand of little [Thomas] Nast. He would sit open mouthed, swallowing all Mort's teachings as gospel and resolving to act upon them. Furthermore Haney supposed that certain of these lines were leveled at his presumed aspirations towards Grace Eldredge. One of the lies started by Fanny [Fern] in her attempt to not only break the friendship between her husband [James Parton] and Haney, but to damn him in the estimation of the Edwards' was the assertion that he had boasted, at his boarding-house (!) of his being engaged to Grace. This she told Mrs [Sarah] Edwards. Now it is not at all improbable that Mort Thomson believes this story and paraded his presumed triumph of his supposed rival in this poem. Like the old woman, he always draws on events and Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 134, November 13, 1859 . 13 November 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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