Shed Sheds", which argues that a "place of retreat" is a "male necessity" which provides men with solace, especially during their retirement. In contrast, in the novel "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons, Aunt Ada Doom saw "something nasty in the woodshed" and retreated to her bed for half a century. To woodshed, or 'shed, in jazz jargon, is "to shut oneself up, away from the world, and practice long and hard, as in 'going to the woodshed'." The word is recorded in English since 1481, as "shadde", possibly a variant of shade. The word shade comes from the Old English
Jeeves and the Impending Doom mind when Jeeves says that Aunt Agatha intended to make Bertie become Filmer's secretary. Jeeves suggests that Bertie avoid his aunt by climbing down a waterpipe outside a window. Jeeves will have a car waiting nearby. Bertie looks at Jeeves reverently, and follows his plan. "Jeeves and the Impending Doom" was illustrated by Charles Crombie in the "Strand" and by Wallace Morgan in "Liberty". The American edition of a collection of Wodehouse stories, "The Weekend-End Wodehouse", published in 1939 by Doubleday, included the story. The story appeared in "Selected Stories by P. G. Wodehouse", a 1958 collection of Wodehouse stories