This novel recounts the hilarious fate of Jack Gudgeon and his feckless son Stanley, after Jack's wife Agatha and her sister Gertrude suddenly leave them. Father and son proceed on a course of alcoholic binges, gambling and total dissipation, ending in Jack drowning his sorrows with the local hotelier, losing everything, and finally being reunited with his long suffering wife. Lennie Lower wrote this in 1929, and with it has made generations of Australians laugh.