It was Story-tellers' Night at the house-boat, and the best talkers of Hades were impressed into the service.

Doctor Johnson was made chairman of the evening.
"Put him in the chair," said Raleigh.

"That's the only way to keep him from telling a story himself.

If he starts in on a tale he'll make it a serial sure as fate, but if you make him the medium through which other story-tellers are introduced to the club he'll be finely epigrammatic.

He can be very short and sharp when he's talking about somebody else.
Personality is his forte." "Great scheme," said Diogenes, who was chairman of the entertainment committee.