However, these are only suggestions.
Now I'm your president I mean to work hard for the club and do my best--( cheers)--and I ask you to back me up.

(Cheers.) I think, by way of a start, we might appoint a committee of, say, half a dozen, to look into the rules and see how they can be improved, and how the club can be made of most use to Templeton.

What do you say ?" Cheers greeted the suggestion, and several names were proposed.

The six elected included Spokes and Braider, and it was evident, from the half- nervous, half-gratified manner in which these two undertook their new responsibilities, that the Hermit had found out the trick of bringing out the good points even of the most unpromising boys.
The Club separated with cheers for the new president, and scarcely yet realising the transformation scene which he had made in their midst.

A few, such as Wrangham, skulked off, but the majority took up the new order of things with ardour, and vied with one another in showing that they at any rate were bent on making the Club a credit.
Freckleton meanwhile retired to report the success of his mission to Mansfield.
"Well, have you got their names and cautioned them ?" asked the Captain.
"I'm very hot and thirsty," said the Hermit, flinging himself down on a chair.
"Yes, yes; but what about this bad club ?" "Call it not bad, Jupiter, for I am its president." "What! you its president!" cried the Captain, taking in the mystery at a bound.