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suitable for this purpose. One may come by boat or horseback, 

 following the course he finds suitable. The club will often meet 

 in remote country places where we will have even more seclusion. 



(3) "The club will meet in the morning and adjourn in the 

 evening. At noon we will eat some vegetable congee and in the 

 evening supplement this with several cups of clear broth. There 

 will be no large vessels of strong rank meats to mar the refinement 

 of our gatherings. 



(4) "When about to separate each member must select a 

 theme and a rhyme and at the following meeting he must present 

 his poem. If it is not finished he is punished by having three 

 thousand fruits taken from him. At meeting-time, members will 

 devote themselves to eating and drinking and not occupy them- 

 selves with poems and songs but each following his own inclination 

 may either take the tripod for warming tea, play chess, recline 

 upon a pillow or mat, enjoy fragrant incense, chat, laugh and not 

 bother about anything else. 



(5) "Those who disturb our ideas and who shirk should 

 be dealt with strictly, while the dilettanti who enter (uninvited) 

 shall not be excluded." 



