This is a comic novel featuring the character, Reginald, who was a retired acrobat. The author used this character many times in various comics and books. Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro. Reginald was witty and funny as illustrated in the story called 'Reginald on Christmas Presents' "There ought (he continued) to be technical education classes on the science of present-giving. No one seems to have the faintest notion of what anyone else wants, and the prevalent ideas on the subject are not creditable to a civilised community."