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"It was a silver cow. But when I say “cow”, don’t go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, underworld sort of animal,…
All wrong, all wrong.
In re Uncle Fred going to The Cedars. He made his way into the house when no one was home and was going to pretend, if caught, to be the vet come with his assistant (Pongo, of course) to clip the parrot's claws. While they are there the owner of hou…
Another Big Game Hunter was Colonel Sir Francis Pashley-Drake.
Jaggard writes in " Blandings The Blest" :-
" He claims to have exterminated more gnus than any hunter in history. The surviving relatives ( if any) of these unfortunate beasts, like th…
The lady in question was Rosalinda Bessemer Spottsworth. She was married twice - both times to multi-millionaires. I mention this as an aside because it is evident that she did some Big Game Hunting too!
Another in the series of tough Big Game Hunters was Lester Mapledurham ( pronounced Mum) - described as a tall, bronzed handsome man with flashing eyes.
Wonderful! The first case you mention was the millionaire A B Spottsworth in " Ring for Jeeves". Bwana Biggar was the accompanying White Hunter. To put things in perspective after shooting the lion, Spottsworth stood triumphantly with one leg on the…
Big game hunters and other manly men are a recurring character type.
Whose husband was it who shot a lion (?) and was posing with it, and "he thought the lion was dead. The lion thought it wasn't. And after the ensuing argument his remains were shi…
It's one book
Prem Rao said:I have wondered for years. Is the book " Mervyn Keene, Clubman" or are " Mervyn Keene" and "Clubman" two seperate books?
We must "Ring for Jeeves:)
Chintamani Rao said:Among the other popular works of Rosie M Banks was…
Among my favourites on names (not necessarily of aristocrats) -- Archie Moffam (pronounced 'Moom', to rhyme with Bluffinghame).
Among the other popular works of Rosie M Banks was Mervyn Keene, Clubman. She submitted an article for Milady's Boudoir (Aunt Dahlia's magazine, for which Bertie wrote his piece), entitled "How I Keep the Love of my Husband-Baby". which was regretta…
When Sean O'Casey called Wodehouse "English literature's performing flea", he meant it to be a gibe. Only Wodehouse could have responded as he did. He said that he hadn't known how to deal with it, but on thinking it over decided it was a compliment…
I haven't yet reached the Emsworth Arms stage, much less the Senior Conservatives. At this age I vote for the Pelican Club. Gally and Uncle Fred were both members of it. Gally, remember, never went to bed until he was fifty. And Uncle Fred, whenever…
(ahem) Ganymede, M'lord. Have you ever wondered about the origin of that name? Ganymede is of course a moon of Jupiter, but in Greek mythology Ganymede was a Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus and taken to Olympus, where he was made the cupbearer…
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