Wednesday, October 02, 2013

An uncle to chill your blood

From earliest boyhood the loopiness of this uncle had been an open book to him and, grown to man's estate, he had become more than ever convinced that in failing to add him to their membership list such institutions as Colney Hatch and Hanwell were passing up a good thing, and he quailed when he heard him speak of the sap rising strongly in his veins.

(from Cocktail Time, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)

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