The Wooster Papers

Books Cast Places Curiosities Find Surprise me

the shot-gun^✦︎

Also a whacking great shot-gun

The gun Cook's stable man shoves into Bertie's midriff.

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GUSSIE WOULD CLEAR HIS THROAT AND BEGIN: ' THERE'S A GREAT BIG CHOO-CHOO WAITING AT THE DEEPO.Extricating Young Gussie, Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, January 1916

Something round and blue and buttony shot through the back-door and buzzed for the archway like a mustang.The Purity of the Turf, The Strand Magazine, July 1922

Well, you are a sportsman!" observed the young person, with great enthusiasm.Bertie Changes His Mind, A. Wallis Mills, The Strand Magazine, August 1922

Ha, ha!" I said, and legged it for the great open spaces.Jeeves and the Dog McIntosh, Charles Crombie, The Strand Magazine, October 1929

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