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"I'm that man." "I've been intending to drop in and see you," I said. "Have you?" he asked eagerly. "Yes," I said. "I live just across the hills from you, and I had a notion that we ought to be neighbourly seeing that we belong to the same society." "You must be mistaken," he said. "I'm not a Mason!" "No more am I," I said. "Nor an Oddfellow." "Nor I."
But the man was an "Oddfellow," and his subscription was nine shillings a quarter, or eightpence halfpenny a week. In prudence, that amount should perhaps have been put by every week, but apparently prudence often had to give way to pressing needs. "When the club money's due, that's when we finds it wust," the woman remarked.
This morning when I went to town for my marketing I met a man who was a Mason, an Oddfellow and an Elk, and who wore the evidences of his various memberships upon his coat. He asked me what lodge I belonged to, and he slapped me on the back in the heartiest manner, as though he had known me intimately for a long time. For I am not a Mason, or an Oddfellow, or an Elk.
Defendant's counsel had taken this opportunity to resume his seat. But counsel for the plaintiff now arose, with a smile, to re-examine. "Did Mr. Pretyman walk out with you on Thursday evenings?" "Oh no, sir. On Thursday evenings Mr. Pretyman was an Oddfellow." "I think we have only to account for Fridays," said his lordship, after consulting his notes. "On Fridays, my lord, Mr.
He was Deputy-Mayor, and Chairman of the General Purposes Committee of the Town Council; he was also a Guardian of the Poor, a Justice of the Peace, President of the Society for the Prosecution of Felons, a sidesman, an Oddfellow, and several other things that meant dining, shrewdness, and good-nature.
They sold forty dollars' worth of lager alone that night, and Mr. Smith learned, if he had not already suspected it, the blessedness of giving. The uses of philanthropy went further. Mr. Smith subscribed to everything, joined everything, gave to everything. He became an Oddfellow, a Forester, A Knight of Pythias and a Workman.
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