I discount him thirty per cent.

for embroidery, and what is left is perfect and priceless truth, without a flaw in it anywhere." Now to make a jump of forty years, without breaking the connection: that word "embroidery" was used again in my presence and concerning me, when I was fifty years old, one night at Rev.Frank Goodwin's house in Hartford, at a meeting of the Monday Evening Club.

The Monday Evening Club still exists.

It was founded about forty-five years ago by that theological giant, Rev.Dr.Bushnell, and some comrades of his, men of large intellectual calibre and more or less distinction, local or national.

I was admitted to membership in it in the fall of 1871 and was an active member thenceforth until I left Hartford in the summer of 1891.