17/22 "Bundle o' sticks," lustily shouted, revived his apprehension; but the sole effect was to make him look on the ground and lift his hat on the point of a perplexed finger. He could not conceive how the bundle of sticks was to be brought in now; or what to say concerning them. Union and Harmony:--what more could be said? He declared to them that he had finished, and had brought in the Bundle. They replied that they had not heard it; that the Bundle was the foundation--sentiment of the Club; the first toast, after the Crown; and that he must go on until the Bundle had been brought in. |