the sausage telegram^✦︎

Also Lay off the sausages. Avoid the ham., Cipher telegram

Bertie's cipher telegram to Gussie: 'Lay off the sausages. Avoid the ham.'

Connections

dealings

• Bertie Wooster sends 2
• Gussie Fink-Nottle is baffled by 2

Scenes it is in

1. Bertie stakes all on propinquity, sends Gussie the 'Lay off the sausages' telegram, and plans to shove the Market Snodsbury prize-giving on to Gussie.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat, as Lay off the sausages. Avoid the ham.

Talked about, but not there

1. A volley of telegrams with Aunt Dahlia and Gussie ends with Aunt Dahlia, calling Bertie a treacherous worm, booking 'Spink-Bottle' to give away the prizes.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat, as Cipher telegram
2. Dressing for dinner, Bertie scorns Jeeves’s fire-alarm idea for reconciling Tuppy and Angela, explains his own starvation scheme, and triumphantly sends Jeeves to fetch the white mess jacket he packed himself.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as that telegram
3. Bertie escapes backgammon, finds Gussie in the rose garden furious about the prize-giving, talks him round, and coaches him in a proposal speech of glimmering landscapes and God’s daisy chain while promising to soften up the Bassett first.Chapter 9, the rose garden, as that cipher telegram about the sausages and ham