Several numbered two or three members only, or even a few less.

But as the lists of adherents were not published, it was not easy to distinguish the great unions from the small ones.
After some dark and indirect steps the pious Agaric was put into communication in a room in the Moulin de la Galette, with comrades Dagobert, Tronc, and Balafille, the secretaries of three unions of which the first numbered fourteen members, the second twenty-four, and the third only one.

Agaric showed extreme cleverness at this interview.
"Gentlemen," said he, "you and I have not, in most respects, the same political and social views, but there are points in which we may come to an understanding.

We have a common enemy.

The government exploits you and despises us.