Ladies – boys and ladies and gentlemen – we have all listened with interest to the remarks of our friend here who forgot to shave this morning – I don't know his name, but then he didn't know mine – Fitz-Wattle, I mean, absolutely absurd – which squares things up a bit – and we are all sorry that the Reverend What-ever-he-was-called should be dying of adenoids, but after all, here today, gone tomorrow, and all flesh is as grass, and what not, but that wasn't what I wanted to say. What I wanted to say was this – and I say it confidently – without fear of contradiction – I say, in short, I am happy to be here on this auspicious occasion and I take much pleasure in kindly awarding the prizes, consisting of the handsome books you see laid out on that table. As Shakespeare says, there are sermons in books, stones in the running brooks, or, rather, the other way about, and there you have it in a nutshell." He continues to address the audience for several pages, amusing some characters and offending others. Gussie makes fun of Bertie's Uncle Tom, and accuses Bertie of having cheated to obtain his Scripture knowledge prize at their private school by sneaking in a list of the kings of Judah, which drives Bertie to leave. Jeeves later says that after Bertie left, Gussie suggested that the winner of the Scripture knowledge prize, young G. G. Simmons, was "well known to the police" and that there was a "guilty liaison" between the headmaster and Simmons's mother. The incident was only concluded when the headmaster instructed the organist to play, and the national anthem was sung. Gussie's grammar school speech is referenced in "Jeeves in the Offing". Bertie recounts that at the grammar school, Gussie "had got pickled to the gills and made an outstanding exhibition of himself, setting up a mark at which all future orators would shoot in vain".