(Coxhead.) 6.

That the subscription be two shillings a term, payable in advance.
(Jones.) Warminster was anxious for consistency's sake to add the words "and are" after "be," but was overruled.
After which we honourably drew lots for the various posts of emolument and honour in connection with the club.
To my surprise I was drawn for president.

At first I was disposed to disclaim the honour on account of my youth and inexperience.

But my fellow-Philosophers assured me that was no excuse, and that my name would undoubtedly "draw." I did not exactly see how, but they were probably better judges than I; and perhaps as an exhib-- No, I was bound to keep that dark.

At any rate, it would be a nice thing to be able to write home to my mother, that on the day of my arrival I had been appointed president of the Philosophical Conversation Club, with a right to add the initials P.L.H.C.C.