HUMOR FROM ' BIG MONEY '

(More humour from 'Big Money)

HODDESDON DREAM

(For some reason, Lord Hoddesdon was annoyed with his sister, Lady Vera.....Then)
Lord Hoddesdon ground the teeth behind his grey moustache. In their nursery days he would have found vent for his emotion by hitting his sister on the side of the head or pulling her pigtail. Deprived of this means of solace be the spirit of  noblesse oblige and the fact that the well coiffured woman does not wear a pigtail, he kicked a chair. The leg came off, and he felt better.

A HEART IN LOVE

(Berry Conway was on his way to meet his lover Ann at Hide Park. He was at his jovial best. And at Hyde Park..............)
True, the usual regiment of loafers slumbered on the grass and there was scattered in the path the customary assortment of old paper bags: but this afternoon, such is the magic of love, these objects of wayside struck him as merely picturesque. Dogs, to the number of twenty-seven, were barking madly in twenty-seven different keys: and their clamour sounded to him like music. If he had time, he would have pursued and patted each separate dog and gone the rounds giving sixpences to each individual loafer. But time pressed, and he had to forgo this piece of self-indulgence.

TALKING SWANS

(Berry met Ann near the lake where two swans, named(by PGW) as swan Egbert and swan Percy, swam. Then.....)
Berry caught her(Ann) in his arms. The swan Egbert turned to swan Percy and said something in an undertone. Percy nodded and both birds then sneered audibly. Swans, like sub-editors, are temperamentally incapable of understanding love's young dream.

ROCKETING PHEASANTS

Lady Vera had sprung form her chair and was now standing on the rug, panting at him. Lord Hoddesdon ground a heel into the carpet. There were moments when his sister reminded him of rocketing pheasant : and, while he liked rocketing pheasants at the proper time and in their proper place, he strongly objected to amateur imitations of them in a small drawing-room.

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