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half -pint of porter Id., one screw of tobacco Id. 

 — in all 4d.," we have a more tr thful description 

 by Tegetmeier, when he said that later on, when 

 the club had more accommodation at its com- 

 mand, " the dinners consisted of a joint, with a 

 pie of some sort, the price being Is. 6d. . . . our 

 refreshment was beer, and our table was always 

 set out with beer and pipes." It was in com- 

 memoration of these early times that a " church- 

 warden " (a long clay pipe with sealing-waxed 

 mouth-end) was presented by the guest of the 

 evening on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday 

 dinner to each member and guest dining there : 

 many of us smoked them during the evening and 

 took them home afterward as mementoes of the 

 man and the time : mine yet hangs on my study 

 wall as I write. By the by, the penny "screws " 

 of tobacco, truthfully referred to by the New 

 York Herald, were obtainable in those early days 

 from the " penny-in-the-slot " brass tobacco boxes 

 described in the chapter " In Bohemia " ; they 

 were placed on the table after the food was 

 cleared away, when the club dined at one of 

 the many taverns at which it met from time 

 to time. 



The first honorary secretary was Andrew 

 Halliday, and with him in 1859 Tegetmeier 

 acted as joint secretary — I believe till 1864 or 

 1865. He himself says : "I was secretary of 

 the club for a long time with Andrew Halliday, 



