Why sir, my card is an illustration of what we call, in Leaplow, rotation in office." "Rotation in office!" "Yes, sir, rotation in office; a system that we invented for our personal convenience, and which is likely to be firm, as it depends on principles that are eternal." "Will you suffer me to inquire, colonel, if it has any affinity to the social-stake system ?" "Not in the least.

That, as I understand it, is a stationary, while this is a rotatory system.

Nothing is simpler.

We have in Leaplow two enormous boxes made in the form of wheels.

Into one we put the names of the citizens, and into the other the names of the offices.