[Follow My leader by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookFollow My leader CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR 6/19
(Laughter and blushes.) 8.
That if there are less than six fellows eligible in any Form, the number may be filled up from eligible candidates in the Form below. "There, that's--roughly speaking--how it is proposed the new Club should be formed." "We should like to know," said Cresswell, rising, "what the Club will do, when it will meet, and so on ?" "Well," said Freckleton, "we thought we could get leave to use the library every evening; and, being a Sociable Club we should try to afford to take in a few of the illustrated and other papers, and manage supper together now and then, and make ourselves as comfortable as possible,"-- (laughter and cheers, especially from the youngsters).
"If we got talent enough in the Club, we might give the school a concert or a dramatic performance now and then, or, in the summer, try our hand at a picnic or a fishing cruise.
If Cresswell gets elected himself--and he'd better not be too sure--he'll find out that the 'Sociables' will have a very good idea of making themselves snug." (Laughter.) "Is there to be any entrance-fee or subscription ?" asked Birket.
"We think fellows might be asked to subscribe half-a-crown a term.
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