Stilton's uniform^✦︎

Also uniform, a policeman’s uniform, helmet, policeman’s helmet, policeman’s uniform, Jeeves’s loathsome gift, Stilton’s plumage, the uniform

Stilton's police uniform and helmet, taken from the river bank while he bathes, worn by Bertie to the ball and thrown in the river.

Connections

dealings

• Bertie Wooster wears, throws 7
• Stilton Cheesewright owns, suspects 5
• Edwin denies 1
• Jeeves pinches 1

Scenes it is in

1. Driving to Wee Nooke in gloom, Bertie is hailed by a hostile Stilton Cheesewright, who has inexplicably become a country policeman.Chapters 7–8, as policeman’s helmet
2. Boko scolds the late Bertie and sends him to the bar, where a very tight Uncle Percy, dressed in shoes much too small, boasts of having got the better of Clam and agrees to go and sit in a car.Chapter 26, East Wibley Town Hall, as that helmet
3. Bertie sends Boko off to Uncle Percy, drives home, throws Stilton's uniform into the river, and finds a hedgehog in his bed, which he lets loose in the garden instead of putting it in Boko's.Chapter 26, Bertie's room at Boko's, as uniform

Talked about, but not there

1. Back at the cottage Nobby promises to show Florence Bertie's letter next morning, and Boko, having fobbed Bertie off with a Pierrot, opens the suitcase to find a Borstal Rovers football suit.Chapters 24–25, the sitting-room, as this costume
2. Alone with Jeeves, Bertie complains of the danger of wearing Stilton's uniform, learns what a porpentine is, and resigns himself to his fate.Chapter 25, Steeple Bumpleigh, as uniform
3. Bertie refuses to be driven to the East Wibley ball by Boko, preferring his own two-seater so he can get out of Stilton's uniform quickly, and frets that Stilton already suspects him of pinching it.Chapter 26, as uniform
4. Nobby kisses Bertie in gratitude, and he swims in the river reflecting that all is well and the uniform is gone for good.Chapter 27, the river, as Stilton’s uniform
5. Stilton arrives at breakfast to arrest Bertie for stealing his uniform, on Edwin's evidence and a waiter's, but goes off to check whether he needs a warrant, and Boko urges Bertie to flee abroad.Chapter 27, the dining-room, as Stilton’s uniform
6. Rushing to the garage to escape, Bertie hears Uncle Percy inside cursing Fittleworth and realises Boko unknowingly drove him home asleep in the back of the car.Chapters 27–28, Boko's garage, as that uniform
7. Stilton brings his warrant for Bertie's arrest, but Uncle Percy denies going to the ball, swears Bertie never left the house, denounces Stilton as drunk and has him shown the door.Chapter 29, the dining-room, as the officer’s uniform