Humorous stories, English; Men -- Societies and clubs -- Fiction; Short stories, English
And naturally the next thing to do was to drink to the health of Jimmy
and his future bride. And it was done with great enthusiasm.
And here the chronicles of the Problem Club must come to an end. The
story of how Willy Bunting became a member of the club and
subsequently retired from it, and how the solution of one problem
brought the Rev. Septimus Cunliffe into the police-court, and how the
solution of another made Mr Matthews miss his dinner, and how a negro
failed to get into the club, and how a girl of seventeen was actually
elected—these things with many others must remain hidden in the club
archives.
Transcriber’s Note
This transcription in based on the text of 1919 edition published by
W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. However, the following are believed to be
unambiguous errors in the text, and have been corrected:
* “climbin” was changed to “climbing” (Chapter I).
* “Pusely Smythe” was changed to “Pusely-Smythe” (Chapter VII).
* Two misspellings of “_The Pig-Keepers’ Friend_” were corrected.
* Seven occurrences of mismatched quotation marks have been repaired.
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