Carry On, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

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Main road heading south out of Cambridge – the continuation of Kings Parade and Trumpington Street. Although the Purple Finch often essays to sing in the autumn and earliest spring, its full powers of voice belong alone to the nuptial season. Then it easily takes its place among our noteworthy song birds. Its full song is a sweet-toned, carelessly flowing warble… Slang expressions for English pounds sterling. “Quid” is still current, and its origins are obscure; the obsolete “o’goblin” is a short variant of “Jimmy O’Goblin,” rhyming slang for “sovereign” (also obsolete).

The catch about portrait-painting is that you can’t start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won’t come to ask you to until you’ve painted a lot first. This makes it kind of difficult, not to say tough, for the ambitious youngster. Bertie has got the metre and the storyline right, but there is no line in the poem that starts “I slew him....” Elsewhere, Bertie often quotes the final stanza:

ca. 240km) This distance from Cambridge suggests that Miss Sipperley lives somewhere in the North Riding.

The American edition of the Reggie Pepper story takes place in America (in New York and Pine Beach) rather than England (in London and Marvis Bay). Rallying Round Old George" (Reggie Pepper, rewritten as the Mr. Mulliner story " George and Alfred" in Plum Pie) After slogging through Words ofHelping Freddie" (Reggie Pepper, rewritten as the Jeeves story " Fixing it for Freddie" in Carry On, Jeeves)

Well, this is a collection of stories as opposed to the one, cohesive novella-sized story that my favorite Jeeves & Woosters have previously been served up. Sure, these one-off short stories deliver a punch, but to watch the long-haul battle of epic misunderstandings that the Wooster/Jeeves team endure is to see Wodehouse float like a butterfly and sting like a bee...while Bertie hilariously flounders about like a half-drowned fish.Notable about this episode is the fierce aversion for marriage displayed by Bertie, who describes it in terms of being caught in the jaws of a hungry, slavering tigress who drags you unwillingly in her den to serve you as the main course at dinner. This reference is so vague it’s probably impossible to pin down an exact source. Bertie seems to be talking about the concept of Nemesis, which is one of the leading elements of Greek tragedy. The original SEP appearance of the story used the spelling “Shakspere.” The 16th of the present month. A formula often used in official reports and business correspondence, it sounds comically pompous if used in speech. Without the Option is the story of how Oliver Randolph Sipperley became a jailbird. Because Bertie was the drunken instigator of Sippy’s assault on a policeman, he must now make amends by impersonating his friend during a visit to a Cambridge mansion. There he meets Heloise Pringle, a girl who ressembles ‘in a ghastly way’ the same old flame from the previous episode. It turns out Heloise is the cousin of Honoria Glossop, and like her, she immediately has designs on improving Bertie’s mind and ensnaring him into an engagement. Hide and run provide only temporary relief for Bertie, and once again Jeeves is required to save the day.