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Show Why He Liked That Club. Bret Harte, though he was the historian his-torian of the "Argonauts of 1S49." hai no real love of yachting. Yet his favorite fav-orite resort during the last years of his-Hfe his-Hfe was the Royal Thames Yacht club. He was once questioned about, It, and explained : "I never use a club until I am tired of my work, and want relief from It If I go to a literary club I am asked all sorts of questions as to what I am doing, and my views on somebody else't last book, and to these I am expected ex-pected to reply at length. "Now, my good friends in Albemarle Albe-marle street talk of their yachts, don't want my advice about them, are gootl enough to let me listen, and I come-away come-away refreshed by their conversation."- |