Bertie Wooster, the hero of the classic English humor master Wodehouse, is a good-for-nothing, a windbag, a fluttering moth—a bungler. And it always turns out, “We wanted it for the best, and it turned out the way it always does.”
Aunt Dahlia very much wants to acquire for her collection a silver milk jug shaped like a cow—which, unfortunately, is rather expensive for an antiquarian. She decides to bring down the price by having Bert tell the antiquarian, in the manner of an expert, that the jug is in no way an antique work. But everything goes awry…