Once endowed with full membership, Maurice and Roddy accepted the
obligations and privileges of the order with enthusiasm. Both
interested themselves immediately in improvements for the shack,
and made excursions to their homes to obtain materials. Roddy
returned with a pair of lensless mother-of-pearl opera-glasses, a
contribution that led to the creation of a new office, called the
"warner". It was his duty to climb upon the back fence once every
fifteen minutes and search the horizon for intruders or "anybody
that hasn't got any biznuss around here." This post proved so
popular, at first, that it was found necessary to provide for
rotation in office, and to shorten the interval from fifteen
minutes to an indefinite but much briefer period, determined
principally by argument between the incumbent and his successor.
And Maurice Levy contributed a device so pleasant, and so
necessary to the prevention of interruption during meetings, that
Penrod and Sam wondered why they had not thought of it themselves
long before. It consisted of about twenty-five feet of garden
hose in fair condition.
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