Herbert George Jenkins 
The Night Club [EPUB ebook] 

The idea originated with Bindle, who is never so happy as when listening to or telling a story. Sooner or later he will so guide conversation as to challenge from someone a reminiscence, or failing that, he will himself assume the burden of responsibility, and tell of how he engineered one of his ‚little jokes, ‚ as he calls them.’I likes to ‚ear ‚im tellin‘ the tale, ‚ Bindle remarked one evening, as we sat in Dick Little’s flat. Dick had just finished an extravagant and highly-coloured account of an Oxford ‚rag.‘ ‚Fancy young gentlemen be’avin‘ like that, ‚ Bindle continued, ‚instead o‘ learnin‘ to be parsons. P’raps that’s why they looks such gentle Jims when they gets into a stiff collar, ‚ and Bindle buried a wink in his tankard.