Mr. and Mrs. Gladman, on the strength of the five hundred pounds,
went home in a cab. Mr. Pincer stayed behind and made a night of
it with Mr. Clodd and Bonner's clerk, at Clodd's expense.

The residue worked out at eleven hundred and sixty-nine pounds and
a few shillings. The capital of the new company, "established for
the purpose of carrying on the business of newspaper publishers and
distributors, printers, advertising agents, and any other trade and
enterprise affiliated to the same," was one thousand pounds in one
pound shares, fully paid up; of which William Clodd, Esquire, was
registered proprietor of four hundred and sixty-three; Peter Hope,
M.A., of 16, Gough Square, of also four hundred and sixty-three;
Miss Jane Hope, adopted daughter of said Peter Hope (her real name
nobody, herself included, ever having known), and generally called
Tommy, of three, paid for by herself after a battle royal with
William Clodd; Mrs. Postwhistle, of Rolls Court, of ten, presented
by the promoter; Mr. Pincer, of the House of Commons, also of ten
(still owing for); Dr. Smith (ne Schmidt) of fifty; James Douglas
Alexander Calder McTear (otherwise the "Wee Laddie"), residing then
in Mrs. Postwhistle's first floor front, of one, paid for by poem
published in the first number: "The Song of the Pen."

Choosing a title for the paper cost much thought. Driven to
despair, they called it Good Humour.



STORY THE THIRD: Grindley Junior drops into the Position of
Publisher