Plum Pie
The UK version included some extra items between the stories, mostly "Our Man in America" anecdotes originally appearing in Punch.
Two of the characters in "Sleepy Time", the couple Agnes Flack and Sidney McMurdo, previously appeared in four other Wodehouse golf stories: "Those in Peril on the Tee", "Feet of Clay", "Tangled Hearts", and "Scratch Man".
He tries to avoid Agnes Flack, a skilled golfer who discovered he is a publisher and talks to him about a book she wrote.
Farmer claims this was an ordinary business precaution, and diverts Cyril's attention by talking about golf.
Farmer hypnotizes Sidney into being friendly, then de-hypnotizes Cyril, who immediately regrets proposing to Agnes.
Farmer offers Cyril a lemon squash, and realizes he can hypnotize the waiter to avoid paying.
Ukridge sees Aunt Julia's butler, Horace Stout, in a pub and learns he was dismissed.
A customer comes looking for genuine antique furniture, and Ukridge sells him the table for sixty pounds.
He explains they had to remove the furniture before Aunt Julia arrived and pays Ukridge sixty pounds.
Heading home, Bingo sees Mabel Murgatroyd, a beautiful red-headed girl he met in "The Word in Season".
At the office of Wee Tots, Bertie gets a call from Rosie, who curtly tells him to see page eight of the Mirror.
Back at the office, Bingo looks up Lord Ippleton in the telephone book and calls him, asking to speak to Mabel.
When Rosie calls again, Bingo tells her he was with Purkiss all night, and that the man in the Mirror photograph must have been his double.
In "Stylish Stouts", Rosie mentions contributing to Algy's bank account a year prior, which occurred in the 1940 short story, "The Word in Season".
After Rosie sends him ten pounds to put in Algy's bank account, Bingo bets it on Whistler's Mother.
Bingo wants to enter his stout Aunt Myrtle and sell the future prize money to the club millionaire Oofy Prosser for a smaller immediate payment, but only uncles are eligible.
Purkiss wants the American author Kirk Rockaway, who is in London, to contribute to Wee Tots.
Her uncle Colonel Francis Pashley-Drake, who used to be a famous big game hunter, is supposed to give Gladys her inheritance when she marries, but only if he approves of her fiancé.
Lancelot is a heavy smoker and packed a box of fifty cigars, but resolves to avoid smoking for Gladys's sake.
Pashley-Drake dislikes Lancelot, but Gladys makes him consent to the marriage by threatening to tell Mrs Potter he is a secret smoker.
Lancelot suddenly rises from behind the desk and offers to give Pashley-Drake his box of forty-nine cigars, and to show him where he can smoke unseen in the garden.
The fictional ocean liner Atlantic featured in the story also appears in Wodehouse's novels The Girl on the Boat and The Luck of the Bodkins.
Arlene, who does not want to marry Judson but fears she will accept him for his money, asks Joe to stay near her for the same reason, and he agrees.
Mr Pinkney discovers Joe left his job and changes his mind about releasing his money.
Bunting realises that Pinkney hid the necklace in the bear, and Judson is appalled that he could have been arrested for smuggling.
Freddie comes up with a plan: he will hold onto the necklace until Pinkney agrees to make an order with Donaldson's Dog Joy and give Joe Cardinal his money.
In Playboy, Bill Charmatz illustrated "Bingo Bans the Bomb",[3] "Stylish Stouts",[4] and "A Good Cigar Is a Smoke".
[12] "Bingo Bans the Bomb" and "Stylish Stouts" were included in the 1982 collection Tales From the Drones Club.
[16] According to Wodehouse scholar Richard Usborne, the length and course of "Life with Freddie" suggest that it may have been planned to be made into a full novel.
This appears to be an error due to a change in the character's name, which was altered between the magazine and book versions of the story.
