And it is just here that his social contrivance comes in: he has judged it expedient to form a club.
"'You see,' said he, the other day, to an old friend, 'the boys don't always see me around, and sometimes they try to take a little advantage.
I find a fellow who don't haul half a load for me while I am paying for a full load; another one who gives me short measure; or another who does not do what I have told him.

I hate to scold; and as they all deny when I accuse them, and I can't be telling men that they are lying to me, I thought I'd just establish a Liars' Club and bring them all in.

It is now in good, healthy operation.

We don't call it the Liars' Club, of course; we speak of the Club.

But when I catch a man trying to 'do' me, I just tell him that I'll have to make him a member of the Club .-- Oh, how do you do, Mr.President ?' said Captain Dixie to a well-known character just then passing by.--'He's the president of the Club, you know,' he added.