Farewell to Legs Farewell to Legs "Farewell to Legs" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the July 14, 1935 edition of "This Week", and in the United Kingdom in the May 1936 issue of the "Strand". It was included in the UK collection "Lord Emsworth and Others", (1937), and in the U.S. edition of "Young Men in Spats" (1936). It is a golf story, narrated by the Oldest Member. The title is a play on Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel, "A Farewell to Arms". The betrothal of Evangeline Brackett to Angus McTavish is built,
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber . . .” "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" was first published in the September 1936 issue of "Cosmopolitan" and later published in "The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories" (1938). The essence of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is courage. Wilson has courage but Macomber, who is afraid of lions, has none. When the cowardly husband, whose wife made her way from Wilson's tent hours before, finds the courage to face the charging buffalo, he forges the identity he wants: the courage to face both wild animals and his wife. Tragically, Macomber's happiness is measured