My Man Jeeves

Book Excerpt: ...the actual composition of the volume for a small fee. It is only necessary that the young lady's name should appear on the title page.""That's true," said Corky. "Sam Patterson would do it for a hundred dollars. He writes a novelette, three short stories, and ten thousand words of a serial for one of the all-fiction magazines under different names every month. A little thing like this would be nothing to him. I'll get after him right away.""Fine!""Will that be all, sir?" said Jeeves. "Very good, sir. Thank you, sir."I always used to think that publishers had to be devilish intelligent fellows, loaded down with the grey matter; but I've got their number now. All a publisher has to do is to write cheques at intervals, while a lot of deserving and industrious chappies rally round and do the real work. I know, because I've been one myself. I simply sat tight in the old apartment with a fountain-pen, and in due season a topping, shiny book came along. I happened to be down at Corky's place when...