Describes a practical joke played by Frank Cahill and George Arnold on the people in Cahill's boarding house. Transcription: table where to assume the role of a deaf and dumb man, [George Arnold] pretending to converse with [Frank] Cahill by means of the finger alphabet, to which Cahill (who knows as much of it as he does of Chinese) responded. There was much sympathy expressed that 'such an intelligent-looking young man' should be so afflicted, and many inquiries made. When the two wanted to grin ? they pretended to make jokes. The scene must have been exceedingly absurd. Some of the boarde
Describes a practical joke played by Frank Cahill and George Arnold on the people in Cahill's boarding house. Transcription: table where to assume the role of a deaf and dumb man, [George Arnold] pretending to converse with [Frank] Cahill by means of the finger alphabet, to which Cahill (who knows as much of it as he does of Chinese) responded. There was much sympathy expressed that 'such an intelligent-looking young man' should be so afflicted, and many inquiries made. When the two wanted to grin ? they pretended to make jokes. The scene must have been exceedingly absurd. Some of the boarders had suspicions, having over heard them conversing in Cahill's room, but the landlady, forgetting that she had answered Arnold's inquiry at the door (!) was completely deceived. She had seen the dumb alphabet before and knew how they did it! Subsequently Cahill and Arnold went down Broadway, entered a quack Chiropodists, Cahill enquiring the expense of having a corn extracted. The operator couldn ?t give an estimate without seeing it, Cahill said he couldn't gratify him because 'his feet were dirty!' Anon he commenced 'I have a brother who has a Tape-Worm ' which word upset Arnold ?s gravity, so both had to grin and run for it. Arnold was not sober; Cahill says that he himself had partaken only of a single 'lager.' A bit of a party at Edwards' on Friday night; didn't Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 41, July 8, 1859 . 8 July 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
Size: 1803px × 2773px
Photo credit: © The Picture Art Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords:
