P. G. Wodehouse,
The Head of Kay's — Chapter 7. A CLUE
(1905)
“ Figures in deshabille, dashing the last vestiges of sleep away with their knuckles, trooped on to the scene in twos and threes, full of inquiry and trenchant sarcasm."What are you men playing at? What's all the row about? Can't you finish that game of footer some other time, when we aren't trying to get to sleep? ”
