The first envelope, attractive though it looked from the outside, being of an expensive brand of stationery and gaily adorned with a somewhat startling crest merely contained a pleasantly-worded offer from a Mr. Alistair MacDougall to advance him any sum from ten to fifty thousands pounds on his note of hand only. The second revealed a similar proposal from another Scot named Colin MacDonald. While in the third Mr. Ian Campbell was prepared to go as high as one hundred thousand. All three philanthropists had but one stipulation to make- they would have no dealings with minors.Youth, with all its glorious traditions, did not seem to appeal to them. But they cordially urged Psmith, in the event of having celebrated his twenty-first birthday, to come round to the office and take the stuff away in a sack.
-P.G. Wodehouse, Leave it to Psmith
A dangerous book to read in any public place, by the way, as passers-by may assume the worst when one's iced mocha comes out one's nose, and charitably attempt an unnecessary Heimlich.
