A Few Quick Ones - Contents

Contents

1. "The Fat of the Land" (Drone Freddie Widgeon)
   • US; This Week, 2 November 1958
2. "Scratch Man" (Oldest Member golf)
   • US: Saturday Evening Post, 20 January 1940 (as "Tee for Two")
   • UK: Strand, September 1940 (as "Tee for Two")
3. "The Right Approach" (Mr Mulliner)
   • UK: Lilliput, September 1958
   • US: Playboy, January 1959
4. "Jeeves Makes an Omelette"
   • Canada: Toronto Star, 22 August 1958
   • UK: Lilliput, February 1959
   • US: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1959 (as "Jeeves and the Stolen Venus")
5. "The Word in Season" (Drone Bingo Little)
   • UK: Punch, 21 August 1940
   • US: Harper's Bazaar, 15 September 1940
   • US: This Week, 18 May 1958 (as "Bingo Little's Wild Night Out")
6. "Big Business" (Mr Mulliner)
   • US: Collier's, 13 December 1952 (without Mulliner framework)
   • UK: Lilliput, March/April 1953 (without Mulliner framework)
7. "Leave It to Algy" (Drone Bingo Little)
   • US: Blue Book, 1954 (as "Hats Off to Algernon")
   • UK: John Bull, 16 May 1959
8. "Joy Bells for Walter" (A golf story without the Oldest Member)
   • US: This Week, 17 October 1956 (as "Keep Your Temper, Walter")
   • UK: John Bull, 16 February 1957 (as "Keep Your Temper, Walter")
9. "A Tithe for Charity" (Ukridge)
   • US: Playboy, April 1955
10. "Oofy, Freddie and the Beef Trust" (Drone Freddie Widgeon)
    • First published in the 1949 omnibus Best of Wodehouse, as "Freddie, Oofy and the Beef Trust"

The Ukridge story "A Tithe for Charity" did not appear in the original U.S. edition, which instead featured a 1958 "exclusive" pseudo-Drones story entitled "Unpleasantness at Kozy Kot" (actually a rewritten version of the 1928 Jeeves story "Fixing It for Freddie" collected in Carry On, Jeeves). "Jeeves Makes an Omelette" was a rewritten version of the 1913 Reggie Pepper story "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good", which appeared in the UK collection My Man Jeeves.