Subject : ` Is summer or winter best fun ? ' A lively pow-wow . About evenly divided . J. Flint fined five cents for disrespect to the Chair . A collection of forty cents taken up to pay for breaking a pane of glass during a free fight of the members on the door-step . E. Devlin was chosen Secretary for the coming year , and a new book contributed by the Chairman . '' `` That 's all . '' `` Is there any other business before the meeting ? '' asked Frank , as the reader closed the old book with a slam and shoved the new one across the table . Ed rose , and glancing about him with an appealing look , said , as if sure his proposition would not be well received , `` I wish to propose the name of a new member . Bob Walker wants to join , and I think we ought to let him . He is trying to behave well , and I am sure we could help him . Ca n't we ? '' All the boys looked sober , and Joe , otherwise Brickbat , said , bluntly , `` I wo n't . He 's a bad lot , and we do n't want any such here . Let him go with chaps of his own sort . '' `` That is just what I want to keep him from ! He 's a good-hearted boy enough , only no one looks after him ; so he gets into scrapes , as we should , if we were in his place , I dare say . He wants to come here , and would be so proud if he was let in , I know he 'd behave . Come now , let 's give him a chance , '' and Ed looked at Gus and Frank , sure that if they stood by him he should carry his point .
But XXXXX shook his head , as if doubtful of the wisdom of the plan , and Frank said gravely : `` You know we made the rule that the number should never be over eight , and we can not break it . ''
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