eight o’clock
Wishing to take the air , I proceeded by a circuitous route to the Club , it being our weekly night of meeting . I found that we mustered our full strength . We were enrolled under the denomination of the Eight Club . We were eight in number ; we met at eight o'clock during eight months of the year ; we played eight games of four-handed cribbage , at eightpence the game ; our frugal supper was composed of eight rolls , eight mutton chops , eight pork sausages , eight baked potatoes , eight marrow-bones , with eight toasts , and eight bottles of ale . There may , or may not , be a certain harmony of colour in the ruling idea of this -LRB- to adopt a phrase of our lively neighbours -RRB- reunion . It was a little idea of mine . -LSB- Picture : Facsimile of a page of the manuscript of `` The Mystery of Edwin Drood '' -RSB- A somewhat popular member of the Eight Club , was a member by the name of Kimber .