The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin

Excerpt from the book...Elizabeth Eliza joined the Circumambient Club with the idea that itwould be a long time before she, a new member, would have to read apaper. She would have time to hear the other papers read, and to see howit was done; and she would find it easy when her turn came. By that timeshe would have some ideas; and long before she would be called upon,she would have leisure to sit down and write out something. But a yearpassed away, and the time was drawing near. She had, meanwhi