The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-09-27
The GchticInen's Club.
BY rHos. J. BEACH, ESQ.,, BALTIMORE.

81 was a member of the Gentlemen's 5
Club, said Jack Hilson, the second luff of
the Warspite, commencing a yarn amidst
the knot of officers who were blowing
cloud one moonlight evening on the quar-
ter-deck. Il was i member Of the Gentle
mems club
The devil you were9' exclaimed Sa-
bic, the chaplain, who had been pacing
TO and fro, studying his sermon for the
morrow. That was long time ago,
,hen, Jack; or else they soon found you
out, eh!'
Not even your dingy cassock would
save you from the consequence of that re-
mark, your Sable reverence, if | was
member Of il now, said Jack.
Halo, the steward mas served out too
much thunder and lightning in your grog
tonight returned the chaplain, laughing.
dts lucky for me, then, according to your
reckoning, that your gentleman no lon-
ger, eh, JackE'
Upon my soul, Sable, really believe
that if was to fish for a laugh in the
streets of London, and use your wit for
bait, should haul up a prayer-it Is SO
confoundedly like preaching. But come
douse the chatter, if an to obey orders,
and spin yarn
Yes, yes, pay out, Jack, pay out; and
If his reverence don't like the number of
his mess, let him sing psalms over the
taffrail for the spiritual edification of 81.
Domingo Billy and his suit observed
the frs; luff, and Jack re-opened accord
ingly.
We'll, was member of the Gentle
mems Club in 1911; there were five hun
dred and sixty Of us, and we used to as
semble at Collingfords in the Haymarket,
whenever general summons to the club
was issued for the purpose of receiving a
new member. The rules of admission
were, in no respect, arbitrary or proscrip-
tive, if man was gentleman, he could
demand his right to join US; and ye, sirs,
young nobleman, but one removed from
the blood royal had been rejected. Our
list included one member of the royal
family, the president Of the club, with
lords and gentlemen from both the Upper
and Lower Houses of Parliament. Cen
tlemen of almost every profession, religion
law, and physic; officers of the army and
navy and
We'll, but what constituted the right or
form of admission or rejectton!' inquired
the first fluff.
You must excuse me there, sir; you
will hardly expect me to expose the Sc
crets of the club, in wasting an hour fol
the entertainment of the quarter deck, said
Jack.
'Oh certainly not-certainly not ex.
claimed several officers at once; one of them
adding, who was familiar with Hilson's
excellent qualities, by your speaking of 9
time when you were a member of the clut
induced me to suppose that it was dissolv
ed foi could never conceive the idea O
your being rejected from the society o
gentlemen
Hilson acknowledged the complimen
with a bow and smile, and said-'The
club has been dissolved; an incident oc
CURED in 1917 which led to that result
and which / will explain after have go
through with my present story. The peri
cd to which ] now refer was in the yeal
1911. / had sister who was then in hel
eighteenth year-a beautiful girl, accom-
Piished, well educated, and possessing nat
ural qualifications of rather superior or
der. You will excuse my saying thus
much OF one whom | still very dearly
love. sand Jack, parenthetically, and his
still handsome features justified the briel
tribute to his sisters beauty; that dare.
deIi, yonder, he continued, pointing to a
MILDLY, who was engaged in spreading a
moose on the lower ratsling of the mizep
shrouds, for monkey ehattering in its
fanciful decent from the top, that boy is
her eldest SON, and declares he will distin.
guish himself in the first action. l shall
ssxs care 70 give him the chance. My