I crawled off the sofa and opened the door. A kind of darkish sort of respectful Johnnie stood without. This is part of an ongoing effort by the members of the Blandings Yahoo! Groupto document references, allusions, quotations, etc. in the works of P. G. Wodehouse. And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;

C. Northcote Parkinson makes much of this rare reference to Jeeves’ youth in his “ghosted autobiography” Jeeves: A Gentleman’s Personal Gentleman(1979). Fixing it for Freddie" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. Originally starring Reggie Pepper, the story was published in The Strand Magazine as " Helping Freddie" in the United Kingdom in September 1911, and in Pictorial Review as " Lines and Business" in the United States in March 1912. The story was later changed to feature Bertie Wooster and Jeeves when it was included in the 1925 collection Carry On, Jeeves. [1] Wodehouse describes his own unsuccessful attempt to write by dictating to a stenographer in the preface to the 1975 Barrie & Jenkins edition of Thank You, Jeeves (also in later reprints) and in Over Seventy (1957). Most of the exhibits Bertie mentions are recorded as being part of the exhibition. It’s not certain whether there was a Planters’ Bar or a Palace of Beauty, but there was a “Women’s Pavillion.” One of the most notable items, displayed in the Canadian Pavillion, was a life-size equestrian statue of the Prince of Wales made out of butter.See “A Letter of Introduction” and “Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant” in The Inimitable Jeeves (originally as the magazine story “Jeeves and the Chump Cyril”). Originally a hummer was someone or something that showed great activity, but by the early 20th century it had also colloquially come to mean someone or something of particular excellence. Added 2015-12-08:] Dirk Laurie suggests that a more specific source is Longfellow’s A Psalm of Life (see annotations to The Girl on the Boat, p. 134, for the poem in full). The poem contains these lines, contiguously:

The Rue du Colisée is a side street of the Ave. des Champs Elysées in central Paris. There is currently no Hotel Avenida listed in Paris.In the magazine appearances of this story, the discussion between Bingo and Bertie omits all mention of Uncle Willoughby’s Memoirs and the events at Easeby. Late Victorian British slang for the head, especially in the phrase off one’s onion for “mad, crazy,” which is the most frequent usage of the term by Wodehouse. The Cambridgeshire Handicap, run at Newmarket in October, is one of the main races of the horseracing calendar. The horse Bluebottle appears to be fictitious. Wodehouse often avoids committing himself to a date by referring to a horserace. Without further ado, let us carry on with a recap of the particular ghastly affairs of Bertie that only the magic touch of Jeeves can untangle: