CHAPTER IV.
THE DILLSBOROUGH CLUB.
The club, so called at Dillsborough, was held every Saturday evening in a back parlour at the Bush, and was attended generally by seven or eight members.

It was a very easy club.

There was no balloting, and no other expense attending it other than that of paying for the liquor which each man chose to drink.

Sometimes, about ten o'clock, there was a little supper, the cost of which was defrayed by subscription among those who partook of it.

It was one rule of the club, or a habit, rather, which had grown to be a rule, that Mr.
Runciman might introduce into it any one he pleased.