The Wooster Papers

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the handshaking scheme✦︎

Also handshaking scheme

Jeeves's plan to charge Americans to shake hands with the Duke of Chiswick.

Connections

dealings

Talked about, but not there

  1. A despairing Bicky refuses Bertie's money and dreams of a chicken farm, and Jeeves suggests charging Americans a fee to shake hands with the Duke.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  2. Nobody will pay to meet the Duke except a delicatessen keeper offering ham and an anarchist who wants to kick him.Chapter 3
  3. Simms's demand for proof that the Duke is a duke exposes the paid handshaking, the furious Duke refuses Bicky a penny, and Jeeves's suggestion of selling the story to the papers makes him take Bicky on as secretary at five hundred a year.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat, as handshaking scheme