(Laughter.) Some of the rules wanted looking to, and a few of the members were not exactly the best specimens of Templeton form.

(Loud laughter.) Gentlemen think there was a joke in that, I suppose.

I didn't see it myself.

We put our heads together to see how the Club could be improved, and I am bound to say the old members came forward most patriotically and gave up their undoubted rights, in order to make the Club a thoroughly Templeton affair." Cheers were raised here for the old "Sociables," who never felt so virtuous in all their lives.
"Now you want to hear what our proposal is.

You'll understand it best if I read the rough rules which the committee has drawn up:--" 1.