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He could make three kinds of salad dressing , two kinds of lobster Newburgh and four Welsh rarebits , and was often the sole guest of honour at the afternoon meetings of the T. T. T. girls , before whom he was always willing to show his prowess . Sometimes he gave chafing-dish parties whereat he served ginger ale and was real devilish . He used to ride around the country bare-headed with two or three girls when honest men were at work , and he acquired a fine leather-coloured tan . He tried organising a polo club , but the ponies from the delivery waggons that were available after six o'clock did not take training well , and he gave up polo . In making horse-back riding a social diversion he taught a lot of fine old family buggy horses a number of mincing steps , so that thereafter they were impossible in the family phaeton . He thereby became unpopular with a number of the heads of families , and he had to introduce bridge whist in the old married set to regain their favour . This cost him the goodwill of the preachers , and he gave a Japanese garden party for the Epworth League to restore himself in the church where he was accustomed to pass the plate on Sundays .