The second meeting--A learned dissertation--A document--Rules--Preliminary speeches and criticisms--Order of business--An election--Congratulations --The dinner 35 THE ELEPHANTINE DEN. Its location--The furniture and its arrangements--A sentinel elected--Punishment for intrusion--Resolutions adopted 47 FIRST DISCOVERIES OF THE CLUB. A new character--A glimpse at the animal--A tall talker--A proposal--Discovery of a group of street-statuary--A pistol-gallery --Bowling-alley--The oriental elephant--Novel pipes--Oriental experience--A member frightened--A new character--Playing Turk--Ceremony of initiation--Art in conchology--Astonishment of Johnny Cake--Engine No. 32-1/4.--The rope breaks--Hose 24-3/8--The race--Mixed-up spectacle--A general row after the fight--The Club resolved 55 FIRST EVENING WITH THE CLUB. Preliminary proceedings--Bobington Thomas confesses his profession--Thomas and his dogs--New York dog-pound--Thomas accepts silver--Mr. James George Boggs--Johnny Cake's railroad experience--A malignant conductor--A passenger sings--A second passenger wakes and joins in the chorus--Song interrupted by an accident--Results of the accident--Train in motion--The song finished--Johnny Cake's abstinence--First experience in Gotham--Curious coincident--Wagstaff's note book--The elephant seen--Members initiated 83 THE COLORED CAMP MEETING. A dense smoke--Resolutions, preparations--The journey--Queer specimens of Religion--Corn whisky--Effects of a hymn--Return to Gotham 132 FURTHER DISCOVERIES. Order enforced--Boggs practises the art of self-defence--Successful fight with the stove--Unsuccessful fight with the nigger--Quackenbush keeps late hours--Deacon Pettingill on a bender--Is taken to a gambling-house--Loans and loses ten dollars--Persecution of a corner grocery-man--A gunpowder plot--More of the Dutchman's troubles--Cousin Betsy--Love, pride and poverty--Mr. Buxton and the nigger--Shanghae coat--A gratuitous baptism--Conflict between Buxton and the darkey 146 THE CLUB IN AN UPROAR. South-ferry stages--Beginning of mishaps--The military--The Lager Bier Invincibles--The fat gentleman--Old maid faints--Battle of Broadway--An Irish funeral procession--One cent short--The journey's end--Overdale's juggling--Johnny Cake drunk--An examination of Johnny's companion--How he lived 188 JOHNNY CAKE'S FIRST SPREE. Johnny's fall--He goes into the Bowery--An artistic barkeeper--The fly--A Kansas official--Johnny Cake's delusion--A Chatham street auction--Johnny's sensation--The gift enterprise--Dropper's dream and hopes of success--The realization--Who didn't win 212 THE POLICE COURTS.