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...last an event occurred which stirred the club to its very depths. Charles Shirts, that emissary of evil, had actually been tendered a dinner (think of it!) in Boston, the home of the Poncas and the Daily Evening Tramp. A meeting was immediately called by the chairman, Mr. Alson Broncott; the President of Haverford College was expelled from the club for his offensive remarks at that dinner; and the club unanimously decided to hold an anti-Shirts gathering. The editor of the Tramp said that she would bear all expenses, if every member of the club would send...
...Alson Broncott called the meeting to order in a felicitous speech, and then asked Mr. F-lds to pass the hat. A general outcry of consternation followed. Mr. J-mes G-rd-n Benn-tt said that it was a dead give-away, and that the Irish were in need of funds to help carry on the glorious work of exterminating, "bloated bond-holders," and that he (Mr. B.) could feel for the poor; Mr. Gl-dst-ne declared that Dizzy must be pensioned; his lordship replied with some asperity, that he was writing another novel, which fact called...
...meeting broke up at last in the greatest confusion, the chairman, Mr. Broncott, shouting above the din that the topic for the next meeting would be, Things in General; or, What No Feller Can Find...
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