A Wodehouse Miscellany / Articles & Stories

Even when she patted you on the head, she had to do it with her knuckles.

Now, the colonel prided himself with justice on his powers as a shot; but on this particular day he had a touch of liver, which resulted in his shooting over the birds, and under the birds, and on each side of the birds, but very rarely at the birds.

and each step in its growth either bleaches another tuft of the author's hair or removes it from the parent skull altogether.