Taking Issue with Percy G. Swisher P.G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse wrote this after reading a Letter to the Editor that began "I take issue with Percy G. Swisher"] The day, I recall, was a spring one. Not hot and unpleasant, though warm. The sort of a day apt to bring one Right up to the top of one's form. So when a kind friend and well-wisher said "Don't just sit dreaming there, kid -- Take issue with Percy G. Swisher," I replied "Yes, I will," and I did! I felt rather sorry for Percy; I hated to crush the poor fish. But no inclination to mercy Could shake my resolve to take ish. You can't be a competent isher If from thoughts of the rough stuff you wince. I took issue with Percy G. Swisher -- He's never been quite the same since. So, though low in the world's estimation (a bit of a washout, in short), I have always this one consolation: I tell myself "Courage, old sport. There are others more gifted, and richer, and plenty more beautiful, but -- You took issue with Percy G. Swisher -- So you might be much more of a mutt!"