WHAT THIS STORY IS ABOUTPoor old Bindle struck an unlucky patch and lost his job. For weeks hehad been out of work and for weeks he had tramped from early morninguntil late at night, without food, beer or tobacco. He sufferedconsiderable pain from what he called his "various" veins; but JosephBindle was a great-hearted little man, who realised to the full hisdomestic responsibilities and, with the aid of his friends, he pulledthrough.In this volume reappear gloomy Ginger, Dick Little, Mr. and Mrs. Hearty,and many others. It tells how Bindle stops a "Prohibition" meeting, paysa visit to the "Zoo," with Mrs Bindle as militant as ever.
Herbert George Jenkins (1876 – 8 June 1923) was a British writer and the owner of the publishing company Herbert Jenkins Ltd. which published many of P.G. Wodehouse's novels.