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THE Q. C. CLUB.

“Yes, a journal that is incomplete isn’t of much use, but a journal properly kept, is worth a thousand dollars,—when you’ve got it done.”

“A thousand!—well, I should think so. I wouldn’t finish it for a million.”

His experience was only the experience of the majority of


DANCING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

that industrious night-school in the cabin. If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal a year.

A good many expedients were resorted to to keep the excursionists amused and satisfied. A club was formed, of all the passengers, which met in the writing-school after prayers and