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number may be filled up from eligible candidates in the Form below.

"There, that's--roughly speaking--how it is proposed the new Club should
be formed."

"We should like to know," said Cresswell, rising, "what the Club will
do, when it will meet, and so on?"

"Well," said Freckleton, "we thought we could get leave to use the
library every evening; and, being a Sociable Club we should try to
afford to take in a few of the illustrated and other papers, and manage
supper together now and then, and make ourselves as comfortable as
possible,"--(laughter and cheers, especially from the youngsters). "If
we got talent enough in the Club, we might give the school a concert or
a dramatic performance now and then, or, in the summer, try our hand at
a picnic or a fishing cruise. If Cresswell gets elected himself--and
he'd better not be too sure--he'll find out that the 'Sociables' will
have a very good idea of making themselves snug." (Laughter.)

"Is there to be any entrance-fee or subscription?" asked Birket. "We
think fellows might be asked to subscribe half-a-crown a term. It's not
very much; and as the juniors usually have twice as much spare cash as
we seniors, we don't think they will shy at the Club for that,"--(loud
cheers and laughter from the juniors).

"There's just one other thing, by the way," continued the Hermit. "It's
only, perhaps, to be talking about turning fellows out of the Club, but
we think we ought to protect ourselves by some rule which will make any
member of the Club who does anything low or discreditable to Templeton
liable to be politely requested to retire. I don't mean mere monitors'
rows, of course. Fellows aren't obliged to get into them, though they
do. But I don't think we ought to be too stiff, and turn a fellow out
because he happens to get a hundred lines from Cartwright, for climbing
one of the elms. (Laughter, and 'hear, hear,' from Cartwright.) He's
no business to climb elms, and it's quite right to give him lines for
it. But as long as he doesn't do that sort of thing systematically, in
defiance of rules, then, I say, let him find some place other than the
club-room, to do his lines in--(hear, hear). The fellows the Club will
want to protect itself against are the cads and sneaks and cheats, who
may be knowing enough to keep square with the monitors, but are neither
Select nor Sociable enough for a Club like ours. There, I never made
such a long speec