Regarding Mr. Pounden's suspicious nature. Transcription: intended departure. Upon my speaking, his mother [Mrs. Pounden] said 'Didn't Frank [Pounden] tell you of it? ? he told Mr P. [Mr. Pounden] he did.' Well I asked Frank, and he said that his father informed him that I had told him. I'd held the thing as a sort of secret, not indeed believing that Pounden would go, ? of course avoiding dropping a word to the obnoxious Irishman his father! I put this down as a trait of Irish nature. 'Suspicion always haunts the Celtic mind.' Lying and distrust are inherent in them. They can't suppose a s
Regarding Mr. Pounden's suspicious nature. Transcription: intended departure. Upon my speaking, his mother [Mrs. Pounden] said 'Didn't Frank [Pounden] tell you of it? ? he told Mr P. [Mr. Pounden] he did.' Well I asked Frank, and he said that his father informed him that I had told him. I'd held the thing as a sort of secret, not indeed believing that Pounden would go, ? of course avoiding dropping a word to the obnoxious Irishman his father! I put this down as a trait of Irish nature. 'Suspicion always haunts the Celtic mind.' Lying and distrust are inherent in them. They can't suppose a simple, straightforward action. One Sunday morning, from sheer want of something to say to the nasty cub, I chanced to remark that we hadn't seen him much of late at dinner, asking whether business kept him down town. Well he goes to his son with dirty suspicions that I ?m inquiring about his business &c. Irish nature is revolting ? all through ? from an [Fitz James] O ?Brien down ? or up-to a Pounden. In doors, writing and drawing. [William] Leslie upin my room a good deal ? he, like Job, afflicted with boils, which prevent him from going to Philadelphia, and taking a sick holiday. Down town in the afternoon. Met [] Stone. He's stopping temporarily in New York, with his wife. Squeaky voice as of yore. A true summer's day. Broadway full of women. F. Leslie's, Pic Office &c. Return. [Robert] Gun up for an hour. [Frank] Cahill's 'drunk' has extended from last Friday till yesterday night. He has betted a pound of tobacco with [Jesse] Haney that he'll abstain from liquor for a month, now. Story of squabble between Cahill and [] Banks. Cahill feeding at Honey ?s Banks (agreable man!) helps himself to a piece of bread, rubbing it round in Cahill's butter-dish. Cahill invites him to call for something, and as he won't, asks the boy to do so, as Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 9, page 146, May 13, 1858 . 13 May 1858. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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