Chapter 2

['Last night even the postprandial conversation of some well-dressed members of the audience failed to neutralise the effect of the music, though they did their best.'—TheTimes.]

A SUGGESTION

[Addressed to the lady or gentleman who had abstracted two pictures from the Royal Academy.]

THE MODEL MOTORIST

[Sir Thomas Lipton, when stopped by the Chertsey police for 'scorching,' remarked: 'You have your duty to do, boys. I have always found you to be correct. I'm sorry.']

THE PARISH PUMP

(A BALLADE)

['The parish pump is the best friend of the teacher of history, and the man who, on the basis of Imperialism, sneers at the parish pump, does not know what he is talking about.'—CanonMasterman.]

POLICE COURT SENSE

['The evidence that I heard totally failed to satisfy me that he was drunk at all in what, for want of a better definition of the term, I may call the Police Court sense.'—Mr.Chester Jones.]

CLUB CANTOS

CANTO I

THE ATHENÆUM

CANTO II

WHITE'S

CANTO III

THE BACHELORS'

CANTO IV

THE GARRICK

CANTO V

THE AUTOMOBILE

CANTO VI

BROOKS'S

CANTO VII

'THE BEEFSTEAK'

CANTO VIII

THE TRAVELLERS'

CANTO IX

'THE BATH'

SONGS IN SEASON

NEW YEAR'S EVE

FEBRUARY

['Really, there must be something rather fine in the English character that enables it to triumph over the English climate.'—ThePall Mall Gazette.]

SPRING

SPRING-CLEANING

['The only way to get workmen out of the house is to move in oneself.'—TheBromide's Handbook.]


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