Quotation from: Love Among the Chickens

Written by: P.G. Wodehouse


I let it rest at that. I could not give my true reason, and this
served as well as any.


At the last moment he recollected that he, too, would get wet when the
accident took place, and raised his price to a sovereign.


A mercenary man. It is painful to see how rapidly the old simple
spirit is dying out in rural districts. Twenty years ago a fisherman
would have been charmed to do a little job like that for a shilling.

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