The Wooster Papers

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the boot polish✦︎

Also boot polish, make-up, a small tin of boot polish, the stuff, tin of boot polish, face all black, blacking

The boot polish Jeeves brings to black Bertie's face so he can escape the yacht as a minstrel, and which soap will not shift.

Connections

dealings

Scenes it is in

  1. Bertie despairs at having to marry Pauline, and Jeeves arrives with pyjamas and a plan to black his face with boot polish so he can slip ashore with the departing minstrels.Chapter 12, the state-room, as boot polish
  2. Pauline tells Jeeves she will not marry Bertie after all and starts on Chuffy's kippers; the starving Bertie pops up, she shrieks, and Chuffy rushes in and takes her in his arms.Chapters 18–21, Chuffnell Hall, as boot polish

Talked about, but not there

  1. Landed safely from the yacht in blackface, Bertie thanks Jeeves, who advises him to wash, take the 10.21 to London and go abroad, and says he will return to Chuffy's service at the Hall.Chapter 13, Chuffnell Regis, as boot polish
  2. Unable to wash off the polish, Bertie finds a drunken Brinkley wrecking the cottage, is chased into the bedroom by him with a carving knife as the Devil, keeps quiet when Sergeant Voules arrives, and flees through the window after Brinkley upsets a lamp and sets the cottage ablaze, leaving the banjolele behind.Chapter 13, Seaview Cottage, as boot polish
  3. Bertie knocks at the back door of the Hall and the scullerymaid who opens it has hysterics at the sight of his black face.Chapters 13–14, Chuffnell Hall, as boot polish
  4. Bertie stands rooted in despair until Jeeves coughs softly at his side.Chapters 14–16, Chuffnell Hall, as this stuff
  5. Glossop, thrown out by Brinkley after a nightmare among Seabury's animals, makes peace with the equally blacked-up Bertie and goes off to clean himself with petrol in Bertie's garage while Bertie heads for the summer-house.Chapter 16, the Dower House, as make-up
  6. Bertie creeps into Chuffy's study to steal his breakfast, hides behind the desk, finds Jeeves telephoning for the missing Sir Roderick, tells him Glossop has gone off in a petrol cleanse and that they are now friends, and dives under the desk again as Stoker is announced.Chapters 17–18, Chuffy's study, as boot polish