Unhappily,
however, for the Pony Club and its worthy representative, I am quite too
poorly provided with worldly wealth at this moment to part with much of
it. A few shillings to procure you a cravat--such as you may get of
Kentucky manufacture--I should not object to. Beyond this, however (and
the difficulty grieves me sorely), I am so perfectly incapacitated from
doing anything, that I am almost persuaded, in order to the bettering of
my own condition, to pay the customary fees, and applying to your
honorable body for the privilege of membership, procure those means of
lavish generosity which my necessity, and not my will, prevents me from
bestowing upon you."
"A very pretty idea," returned he of the road; "and under such
circumstances, your jest about the cravat from Kentucky is by no means
wanting in proper application. But the fact is, our numbers are just now
complete--our ranks are full--and the candidates for the honor are so
numerous as to leave little chance for an applicant.
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