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A boastful mystic meets his match when a house party requests a transformation and Clovis supplies the necessary wolf.
An inept fiancé blunders through cards, shooting, and politics before a winter accident forces his future brother-in-law to act.
A miser dies over an unpaid two francs, then returns to supervise how his reluctant debtor disposes of the money.
A mother removes every penny from her gambling son, who responds by finding a household asset she forgot to lock up.
A cattle painter is asked to remove an ox from a neighbor’s garden and discovers that artistic expertise has practical limits.
Clovis, traded into six days of unwanted hospitality, exploits his hostess’s fear of revolution to revise the arrangement.
Clovis tells of a pagan king, a rebellious young heir, and a martyrdom whose miracle proves less simple than history records.
A bored bachelor challenges an aunt's moral tale with a story whose horribly good heroine earns the children's full attention.
Outnumbered by old enemies at a children’s party, Rollo turns games, stolen peaches, and imaginary chocolates to his advantage.
Clovis is asked to stop an unwanted acquaintance from securing a picnic invitation, and words are the only weapon he needs.
When protests fail, London's suffragists find a new way to make Parliament take their demands seriously.
Two boys receive pacifist toys meant to reform their imaginations and immediately find new uses for dustbins, reformers, and public libraries.
A duchess finances a device to recover sunken treasure, entrusting it to the one relative most likely to find profit elsewhere.
A celebrity divorce becomes Britain's newest industry, until the couple at its center decide they are the workers.
Hearing a stranger complain of too much routine, Clovis prescribes an unrest cure involving a bishop, telegrams, and an imminent atrocity.
Three nieces take their wealthy aunt abroad to expose a wastrel nephew, only to introduce her to a pleasure more expensive than he is.
A dismissed family legend returns when an impoverished governess falls ill in the castle her ancestors once owned.
A London newspaper sends its entire staff to Central Asia, then seems to return with a style so strange that the government demands answers.
A house party celebrates a cat taught to speak, until Tobermory repeats what he has heard from windows and under chairs.
Two aristocratic mothers negotiate a practical marriage between unsuitable children while insulting each other’s family.
Exhausted by festive thank-you notes, a married couple designs a national holiday from compulsory gratitude—and still owes one more letter.
A devout young duke puts an angelic solution to Britain’s political quarrels into practice, with consequences no statesman could predict.
The masked president of a future Western dictatorship opens talks with his Asian rival, then learns that his purges have missed the real infiltrators.
A government animal inspector discovers that one engineered pet can think and speak like a child, forcing him to decide who counts as human.
