The Wooster Papers

Cast

Poppet♞︎

Also called the dog Poppet, the dachshund Poppet

Phyllis's dachshund, whose fierceness is all swank; it takes to Bertie, chases Augustus, knocks Bertie into the lake and is rescued from the water by Wilbert.

Connections

dealings

Scenes they are in

  1. Arriving at Brinkley to find Bobbie, Bertie stumbles on Wilbert Cream reading poetry to Phyllis Mills, is befriended by Poppet the dachshund, and is sent off to the lake.Chapter 3, the leafy glade, as dachshund
  2. Bertie breaks up Wilbert Cream's tender moment with Phyllis by announcing tea, and Wilbert stalks off with the dachshund Poppet, plainly loathing him.Chapter 5, the leafy glade
  3. Bertie frets over Ma Cream's suspicions and Wilbert's ardour for Phyllis, and when Wilbert goes off walking Poppet he dozes off on the lawn over one of Ma Cream's novels.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
  4. While Kipper waits behind his tree, Wilbert Cream tells Bertie the cow-creamer has vanished from his bureau, and Bertie realises Glossop has pinched it and talks Wilbert out of telling Mrs. Travers.Chapter 15, the lake
  5. Phyllis calls Upjohn away to the telephone just as Bobbie gives the cue, then Augustus spits at Poppet, who knocks Bertie into the lake, and Kipper dives in and rescues Bertie instead.Chapter 15, the lake

Talked about, but not there

  1. Driving down to Brinkley, Bertie briefs Jeeves on Bobbie's haughty spirit and on Poppet the dachshund, then spots Bobbie's roadster outside a wayside inn and stops.Chapter 11, as dachshund
  2. Back at Brinkley, Bertie learns from Aunt Dahlia that Uncle Tom sold Wilbert the cow-creamer, then Bobbie icily cuts Kipper, who confesses he got engaged to Phyllis as a ruse against Wilbert and was caught kissing her.Chapters 12–14, Aunt Dahlia's den
  3. Bobbie and Kipper tell Bertie of Aunt Dahlia's new plan: Bertie is to abuse Upjohn to his face so that Kipper can burst in, defend him and get the libel suit dropped, and Bertie, bound by the code of the Woosters, agrees.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as a totally unexpected dachshund
  4. A distraught Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Phyllis has got engaged to Wilbert Cream.Chapters 16–18, Brinkley Court, as dog of hers