The Wooster Papers

Curiosities

Remembered in passing

Boat Race night, the newt in the salad, Gussie at school: the old stories that come up in passing.

A few to begin with

  1. Bertie has grown a moustache, and Jeeves's disapproval has strained relations between them.My Man Jeeves, Chapter 3, some time before
    I HAD DECIDED-RIGHTLY OR WRONGLY— TO GROW A MOUSTACHE, AND THIS HAD CUT JEEVES TO THE QUICK.
    I HAD DECIDED-RIGHTLY OR WRONGLY— TO GROW A MOUSTACHE, AND THIS HAD CUT JEEVES TO THE QUICK.Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, August 1917
  2. Tuppy bet Bertie he couldn't swing across the Drones swimming-bath on the rings, then looped back the last ring so Bertie fell in.Very Good, Jeeves, Chapter 3, some time before
    This fiend in human shape left me hanging in the void with no means of getting, ashore to my home and loved ones.
    This fiend in human shape left me hanging in the void with no means of getting, ashore to my home and loved ones.Charles Crombie, The Strand Magazine, December 1927
  3. Tuppy bet Bertie he couldn't swing across the Drones swimming-bath on the rings, then looped back the last rope so Bertie fell in wearing evening dress.Very Good, Jeeves, Chapter 4, months before
    When I had done half the trip I found Tuppy had looped the last rope back, leaving me no alternative but to drop into the depths.
    When I had done half the trip I found Tuppy had looped the last rope back, leaving me no alternative but to drop into the depths.Charles Crombie, The Strand Magazine, September 1929
  4. The two women accuse each other of school misdeeds: flattering the hockey captain, cribbing for the Scripture prize, and catty gossip passed via Simpson and Waddesley.Very Good, Jeeves, Chapter 9, at school
    I had never listened in on a real, genuine Iemale row before, and I'm bound to say it was pretty impressive.
    I had never listened in on a real, genuine Iemale row before, and I'm bound to say it was pretty impressive.Charles Crombie, The Strand Magazine, February 1930
  5. The affair of Sir Watkyn Bassett and the silver cow-creamer, when only Jeeves kept Bertie out of jail.Other Stories, Chapter 2, before
  6. Bertie recalls regularly bailing out a pal who got pinched every Boat Race night.The Inimitable Jeeves, Chapter 9, at Oxford
  7. Sippy did thirty days for punching a policeman on Boat Race night.Very Good, Jeeves, Chapter 2, a year before
  8. Sippy tried to steal a policeman's helmet in Leicester Square on Bertie's advice.Very Good, Jeeves, Chapter 7, a Boat Race night
  9. Gussie lives buried in Lincolnshire, never coming to London, studying the newts in his pond.Right Ho, Jeeves, Chapter 1, for years
  10. Gussie kept newts in a smelly glass tank in his study at school, and the craving grew until he retired to the country with them.Right Ho, Jeeves, Chapter 1, at school and after
  11. On Bertie's last visit, Gussie brought newts to the luncheon table and lost one in the salad.Right Ho, Jeeves, Chapter 1, about two years before
  12. Gussie, a teetotaller full of orange juice, lectured Madeline on newts instead of proposing.Right Ho, Jeeves, Chapter 12, the previous evening

By book 829 memories

Other Stories 16 memories
  1. Uncle Cuthbert's ruinous extravagance with horses, drink and Monte Carlo systems.Chapter 1, years before
  2. Aunt Julia was once a vaudeville artist, playing pantomime at Drury Lane when Uncle Cuthbert first saw her.Chapter 1, twenty-five years before
  3. Aunt Julia knocked them cold at the Tivoli in tights in 'Fun in a Tea-Shop', singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay'.Chapter 1, twenty-five years before
  4. Gussie once sang 'Let's All Go Down The Strand' after a bump supper standing knee-deep in the college fountain.Chapter 1, at Oxford
  5. Danby recalls courting Julia on tour with buns at Bristol, ham sandwiches at Portsmouth and a seed-cake at Birmingham.Chapter 1, twenty-five years before
  6. Uncle Tom, who pays for the Boudoir, is rich but hates parting with money, especially on income tax.Chapter 2, ongoing
  7. Aunt Dahlia keeps Bertie obedient by threatening to bar him from Anatole's cooking.Chapter 2, always
  8. The affair of Sir Watkyn Bassett and the silver cow-creamer, when only Jeeves kept Bertie out of jail.Chapter 2, before
  9. Bertie and Glossop once spent a night wandering Chuffnell Regis with blacked faces, which made them friends.Chapter 3, over a year before
  10. Glossop became engaged to Myrtle, Lady Chuffnell at Chuffnell Regis.Chapter 3, over a year before
  11. Bertie recalls Honoria Glossop, the dynamic girl he was once engaged to, and his written description of her.Chapter 3, years before
  12. Bertie remembers learning that the Junior Ganymede club book holds eleven pages about him.Chapter 3, some time before
  13. Aunt Dahlia's paper Milady's Boudoir, funded by Uncle Tom, once printed Bertie's piece on What The Well-Dressed Man Is Wearing.Chapter 3, years before
  14. Bertie refused Jeeves's wish to go to Florida after Christmas to catch a tarpon, wanting to stay for the Drones Club Darts Tournament.Chapter 3, a day or two before
  15. Bertie escaped a caning from Aubrey Upjohn at Malvern House by coming out in measles.Chapter 3, at school, aged thirteen
  16. Oofy Prosser paid Waterbury two thousand pounds to escape marrying another of his nieces.Chapter 3, some time before
My Man Jeeves 19 memories
  1. Bertie recalls the family fuss when he tried to marry into musical comedy, and Aunt Agatha's attitude over Gussie and the vaudeville girl.Chapter 1, a few years before
  2. Jeeves tells how his former employer Digby Thistleton relaunched a failed depilatory as the hair-restorer Hair-o and made a fortune and a peerage.Chapter 1, years before
  3. Bertie recalls how, after giving up a suit and some boots, he defied Jeeves and bought the Country Gentleman hat instead of the Longacre.Chapter 2, the day before
  4. Aunt Agatha sent Bertie to New York to rescue Cousin Gussie from a music-hall girl, but Gussie married her and went on the stage.Chapter 2, a year before
  5. Motty describes being cooped up at Much Middlefold, where a choir-boy sucking chocolate is the only excitement.Chapter 2, all his life
  6. Bertie's stay with Rocky Todd on Long Island, where days have forty-eight hours and the crickets bellow.Chapter 2, the past few days
  7. Jeeves met Motty in the street and bet him fifty dollars he would not punch a passing policeman in the eye.Chapter 2, the night Motty was arrested
  8. Bertie has grown a moustache, and Jeeves's disapproval has strained relations between them.Chapter 3, some time before
    I HAD DECIDED-RIGHTLY OR WRONGLY— TO GROW A MOUSTACHE, AND THIS HAD CUT JEEVES TO THE QUICK.
    I HAD DECIDED-RIGHTLY OR WRONGLY— TO GROW A MOUSTACHE, AND THIS HAD CUT JEEVES TO THE QUICK.Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, August 1917
  9. Bertie met Bicky at a party in Washington Square and took to him over his imitation of a bull-terrier chasing a cat.Chapter 3, months before
  10. Bicky is the penniless son of the Duke's late sister and Captain Rollo Bickersteth, dependent on his miserly uncle.Chapter 3, back-story
  11. The Duke turfed Bicky out to learn ranching in Colorado, but Bicky stayed in New York and cabled that he had found a business opening.Chapter 3, before leaving England
  12. Jeeves's former employer Lord Bridgnorth relaunched a failed hair-restorer as a depilatory and made a fortune.Chapter 3, years before
  13. Bertie recalls being pursued along Piccadilly by touchers after his money.Chapter 3, in London, before
  14. At the theatre Jeeves fell into talk with a Birdsburg conventioneer and struck the deal.Chapter 3, the night before
  15. Rocky's lazy life as a poet on Long Island, his poem 'Be!', and his prospects from his moneyed aunt.Chapter 4, before
  16. Bertie went to hear the reformer Jimmy Mundy denounce New York at the Garden.Chapter 4, a couple of days before
  17. Jeeves's aunt in south-east London escapes to ride in hansom cabs and raids the children's savings bank to pay for them.Chapter 4, ongoing, years before
  18. Bertie's previous valet went to a revival meeting and came back to denounce him as a moral leper before his supper guests.Chapter 4, years before, in England
  19. Jeeves's family used to send for the parish clergyman to talk his aunt out of her hansom-cab fits.Chapter 4, years before
The Inimitable Jeeves 44 memories
  1. Bingo is Bertie's school friend, nephew of the retired liniment magnate Mortimer Little, who gives him a comfortable allowance.Chapter 1, background
  2. Bingo has been perpetually falling in love, collecting actresses' photographs at school and famed for romance at Oxford.Chapter 1, at school and Oxford
  3. Bingo once lectured the head-waiter at Claridge's on how the sole should be prepared.Chapter 1, happier days
  4. Bingo met Mabel at a Camberwell charity dance for which Jeeves sold him tickets, and where Jeeves danced.Chapter 1, some time before
  5. Bingo claims to have once saved Bertie's life, then concedes it must have been some other fellow.Chapter 2, boyhood
  6. Bertie recalls Aunt Agatha's view that his life is wasted and that he has done nothing since winning a school prize for wild flowers.Chapter 2, from childhood up
  7. Old Little tells of his cook's seven years of service, a lapse in a mayonnaise during the 1917 air-raids, and her giving notice that morning.Chapter 2, seven years
  8. Jeeves met the young person at a subscription dance at Camberwell.Chapter 2, some weeks before
  9. Aunt Agatha could turn Bertie inside out with a single glance all through his childhood and schooldays.Chapter 3, in Bertie's childhood
  10. Aunt Agatha had her room changed twice and criticised everything until the hotel staff grovelled before her.Chapter 3, before Bertie's arrival
  11. Bertie, facing marriage to Aline and with Jeeves aloof over the cummerbund, finds the Hemmingways clinging to him everywhere.Chapter 4, the previous two weeks
  12. Jeeves recalls how Soapy Sid and a female accomplice swindled his employer Lord Frederick Ranelagh at Monte Carlo with the same pearl-case trick.Chapter 4, before Jeeves entered Bertie's service
  13. Jeeves takes a fortnight's holiday each year and finds a decent man to look after Bertie meanwhile.Chapter 5, every year
  14. Bingo lost his month's allowance on a horse at Haydock Park and took a tutoring job rather than ask his uncle for more.Chapter 5, weeks before
  15. Honoria went to Girton, swelled her brain and took up every sport, possibly boxing for the Varsity.Chapter 5, years before
  16. Bertie recalls playing a butler in country-house amateur theatricals and the endless walk across the stage.Chapter 6, years before
  17. In the same theatricals the heroine forgot her cue and Bertie stood waiting on stage for a full minute.Chapter 6, years before
  18. Bertie explains that Sir Roderick is really a sort of janitor to the loony-bin, called in by every posh family.Chapter 7, general background
  19. Bertie recalls his late Uncle Henry, who tipped him lavishly at school, kept eleven rabbits in his bedroom and ended in a home.Chapter 7, years before
  20. Bertie remembers spending a whole term getting the twins Claude and Eustace out of frightful rows.Chapter 7, Bertie's last summer term at school
  21. Sir Roderick tells how his hat was snatched from his open car in a traffic block.Chapter 8, that morning
  22. Bertie and Jeeves have fallen out over some purple socks Bertie insists on wearing.Chapter 9, lately
  23. Bertie recalls regularly bailing out a pal who got pinched every Boat Race night.Chapter 9, at Oxford
  24. Bertie recalls lunching with Bingo's sloppy, carpet-slippered uncle when Bingo loved the bun-shop waitress.Chapter 11, months before
  25. The bearded man's attack on Bittlesham in Hyde Park and Bingo's tale of seeing him at Pounceby Gardens.Chapter 12, last Sunday and the night before
  26. After the Goodwood fiasco Bingo touched Bertie for a tenner and vanished; Twing Hall belongs to Lord Wickhammersley, an old pal of Bertie's late father.Chapter 13, a fortnight before
  27. Bertie once read with the vicar of Twing, a famous coach for the feeble-minded who got him through Smalls.Chapter 13, years before
  28. Bertie once fancied himself in love with Cynthia, but she was too full of ideals and the frenzy petered out into friendship.Chapter 13, years before
  29. Charlotte Corday Rowbotham gave Bingo the raspberry and went off with Comrade Butt.Chapter 13, a fortnight before, at Goodwood
  30. In Bertie's day Heppenstall never preached under half an hour, and his sermon on Brotherly Love ran forty-five minutes.Chapter 13, years before
  31. Heppenstall dropped pages from his sermon-case and preached under twenty minutes, misleading Steggles into giving him a generous handicap.Chapter 13, a fortnight before
  32. Jeeves chased Harold to clip his ear for an opprobrious remark about his appearance and was outrun.Chapter 14, some time before
  33. Harold, caddying for Bingo, bolts at the sight of Steggles and reveals his speed.Chapter 14, that afternoon
  34. Heppenstall struck the Fathers' Quarter-Mile off the programme over betting at the village inn and a suspected sold race.Chapter 14, three years before
  35. Jeeves made friends with Heppenstall's butler Brookfield during the visit to Twing Hall.Chapter 15, the summer before
  36. Bingo lost money at Hurst Park and had to go back to tutoring at Twing Hall.Chapter 15, end of October
  37. Bertie lists Bingo's earlier loves: Mabel the waitress, Honoria Glossop and Charlotte Corday Rowbotham.Chapter 15, before
  38. At the church bazaar Bingo backs Wilfred against young Heppenstall in Steggles's eating contest, and Mary banishes him when both boys fall ill.Chapter 15, days before
  39. Bertie bought a pair of Old Etonian spats in the Burlington Arcade, which Jeeves disapproves of.Chapter 16, a day or two before
  40. Eustace let the Senior Tutor have a siphon of soda-water in the eye from their window.Chapter 16, at Oxford, a fortnight before
  41. Bertie recalls Covent Garden balls till six and breakfasts at the Hammams in his Oxford days.Chapter 16, at Oxford, years before
  42. Bertie sketches Uncle George, a festive old egg who goes from club to club and holds alcohol to be a food.Chapter 16, habitual
  43. Bertie recalls how Bingo made him pose as the novelist Rosie M. Banks to help him marry Mabel of the Piccadilly bun-shop.Chapter 17, about eighteen months before
  44. Bertie's pushing Glossop's son into the lake at Ditteredge Hall, and Glossop's lunch among cats and fish and the pinched hat, are recalled.Chapter 18, months before
Carry On, Jeeves 46 memories
  1. Florence became engaged to Bertie and assigned him a demanding philosophy book.Chapter 1, Two or three days before leaving Easeby
  2. Jeeves resigned over Worplesdon’s clothes; Bertie remembers a childhood chase and Worplesdon’s later flight to France.Chapter 1, Before Jeeves’s arrival, and some years later
  3. Fothergill tearfully admitted that Meekyn made him give up his brown shoes.Chapter 1, One night at the club
  4. Bertie asked Florence to court his uncle’s approval by taking an interest in his writing.Chapter 1, Before Bertie left Easeby
  5. Florence recounts the shocking memoirs Willoughby read her, including scandals involving her father and other respectable men.Chapter 1, The previous evening and the 1880s
  6. Edwin exposed Bertie’s cigar smoking as a child and now makes life miserable with Boy Scout good deeds.Chapter 1, Nine years earlier and the present visit
  7. Jeeves’s aunt delighted in publicity about her swollen limbs after endorsing an ointment.Chapter 1, A few years earlier
  8. Jeeves describes Florence’s temper and reports her plan to make Bertie read Nietzsche.Chapter 1, During Jeeves’s previous employment and the current visit
  9. Jeeves recalls Thistleton making a fortune by selling a failed depilatory as hair restorer.Chapter 2, during Jeeves’s earlier employment
  10. Bertie recalls failing to stop Gussie marrying a music-hall girl and staying in America to avoid Aunt Agatha.Chapter 3, Before this visit
  11. Bertie finds the isolation of Rocky Todd’s cottage intolerable and cuts his stay short.Chapter 3, The preceding few days
  12. Bertie’s decision to grow a moustache has strained his relations with Jeeves.Chapter 4, recently
  13. Bertie befriended Bicky at a Washington Square party, delighted by his animal imitation.Chapter 4, shortly after arriving in New York
  14. The duke sent Bicky to learn ranching, but Bicky stayed in New York and invented a business career.Chapter 4, before the duke’s visit
  15. Jeeves’s aunt paid five shillings to entertain a film actor and gain social standing.Chapter 4, previously
  16. Jeeves met a Birdsburg delegate at the theatre and arranged introductions to the duke for the whole party.Chapter 4, the previous evening
  17. Rocky passed off two newspaper acquaintances as David Belasco and Jim Corbett.Chapter 5, a few nights earlier
  18. Jeeves took Isabel to Mundy’s meeting, where his denunciation of nightlife converted her.Chapter 5, three days earlier
  19. Jeeves’s family used the parish clergyman to distract his aunt from cab rides.Chapter 5, before
  20. Biffy inherited his godmother’s estate and gave up his daily London companionship with Bertie.Chapter 6, eighteen months before
  21. Biffy met Mabel on a liner and became engaged, but a customs delay left him unable to remember her surname or hotel.Chapter 6, last year
  22. Bertie recalls the exhausting prospect of marriage to the athletic and intellectual Honoria.Chapter 6, during Bertie’s former engagement
  23. Jeeves persuaded Sir Roderick that Bertie was insane after the doctor learned of an eccentric uncle.Chapter 6, during Bertie’s former engagement
  24. Bertie bought the bouquet for Harold’s birthday but kept it and passed off Uncle James’s aeroplane as his own gift.Chapter 6, a few days before
  25. Sippy invented a Cambridge writing commission to escape a village concert, so his aunt arranged for him to stay with the Pringles.Chapter 7, before the arrest
  26. Bertie recalls fleeing lookalikes of his relatives and his disastrous engagement to Honoria Glossop.Chapter 7, before the visit
  27. Heloise’s intent gaze reminds Bertie of Honoria’s look before their engagement.Chapter 7, at lunch that day and before the former engagement
  28. Bertie finds Freddie at the Drones and learns that Elizabeth has broken off their engagement.Chapter 8, earlier that day
  29. A rejected suitor travels abroad and forgets his former beloved’s surname.Chapter 8, an unspecified earlier time
  30. Elizabeth rejects Freddie’s invented rescue story because Tootles is a stranger she met on the beach.Chapter 8, just before Freddie’s return
  31. Jeeves watches Tiny Hands, in which a child reunites his estranged parents.Chapter 8, the previous evening
  32. Dahlia persuaded Bertie to write fashion advice for Milady’s Boudoir.Chapter 9, recently
  33. Bingo told Bertie that Rosie wants a housemaid who will not break the china.Chapter 9, a couple of days before
  34. Anatole’s remarkable cooking has made Bingo put on weight.Chapter 9, since Anatole joined the household
  35. Bertie describes Dahlia’s marriage to Tom and the hunting life she exchanged for her magazine.Chapter 9, since Dahlia’s marriage
  36. Tom made his fortune in the East but damaged his digestion and now has fits of pessimism and economy.Chapter 9, over the years
  37. Uncle George’s self-indulgence has made repeated cures necessary, and he hates going alone.Chapter 9, for years
  38. Bingo heard Rosie’s recorded article describing their marriage and fears his friends’ ridicule.Chapter 9, the previous evening
  39. Anatole refused Jeeves’s offer because the parlourmaid he loves had just returned from holiday.Chapter 9, the previous night
  40. Bingo recalls Bertie’s theft of his uncle’s memoirs, which Bertie protests involved no breaking into a house.Chapter 9, on an earlier visit to Easeby
  41. Uncle George used to oppress Bertie, making his present discomfort particularly satisfying.Chapter 9, Bertie’s childhood
  42. A play about a father and daughter has made Wooster want a child to look after.Chapter 10, the previous night
  43. Jeeves remembers overcoming Wooster’s determination to wear purple socks.Chapter 10, earlier in their employment
  44. Jeeves recalls serving as a page-boy at a school where the girls competed to make visitors blush.Chapter 10, at the outset of Jeeves’s career
  45. Jeeves recalls the financier Montague-Todd charming men who had come to horsewhip him.Chapter 10, during Jeeves’s former employment
  46. Uncle Henry taught Wooster a trick for winning bets on the visibility of the Law Courts clock.Chapter 10, when Wooster first came to London
Very Good, Jeeves 37 memories
  1. Bertie and Bingo have been pals since birth, through Eton and Oxford, and Bingo has married Rosie M. Banks, who was taking him to America.Chapter 1, from birth; some time before
  2. Rosie left Bingo the Peke and two hundred quid; he lost it on a horse, boarded the Peke at kennels and took the tutoring job.Chapter 1, weeks before
  3. Spenser Gregson's Sumatra Rubber killing let Aunt Agatha buy the estate with its lake, island and Octagon.Chapter 1, recently
  4. The Octagon was built so a former owner's grandfather could practise the fiddle out of earshot.Chapter 1, last century
  5. Bertie somehow buys the vase at an auction in the Strand.Chapter 2, the previous afternoon
  6. Sippy did thirty days for punching a policeman on Boat Race night.Chapter 2, a year before
  7. Waterbury once gave Sippy six of the best with a cane.Chapter 2, at school
  8. Aunt Agatha accused a French hotel maid of stealing her pearls, found them in her drawer and was told off by the proprietor.Chapter 2, a year or so before
  9. Bertie recalls his engagement to Honoria Glossop and how Sir Roderick came to think him a loony.Chapter 3, some time before
  10. Tuppy bet Bertie he couldn't swing across the Drones swimming-bath on the rings, then looped back the last ring so Bertie fell in.Chapter 3, some time before
    This fiend in human shape left me hanging in the void with no means of getting, ashore to my home and loved ones.
    This fiend in human shape left me hanging in the void with no means of getting, ashore to my home and loved ones.Charles Crombie, The Strand Magazine, December 1927
  11. At Bobbie's girls' school they punished offenders by puncturing their hot-water bottles with a darning-needle on a stick.Chapter 3, Bobbie's schooldays
  12. Beefy Bingham, at Oxford with them, is now an East End parson whose Lads' Club Tuppy has been helping.Chapter 4, Oxford days and recent weeks
  13. Tuppy bet Bertie he couldn't swing across the Drones swimming-bath on the rings, then looped back the last rope so Bertie fell in wearing evening dress.Chapter 4, months before
    When I had done half the trip I found Tuppy had looped the last rope back, leaving me no alternative but to drop into the depths.
    When I had done half the trip I found Tuppy had looped the last rope back, leaving me no alternative but to drop into the depths.Charles Crombie, The Strand Magazine, September 1929
  14. Bertie likens the audience to the Face at a New York speakeasy grille.Chapter 4, earlier, in New York
  15. Bobbie let Bertie down in the affair of Tuppy Glossop and the hot-water bottle at Skeldings Hall.Chapter 5, the previous Christmas
  16. The Blumenfeld child snootered Cyril Bassington-Bassington by telling him he had a face like a fish.Chapter 5, earlier, in New York
  17. Aunt Dahlia recalls how Jeeves stopped Bertie wearing a moustache, purple socks and soft-fronted shirts.Chapter 6, before
  18. Bertie recalls Jeeves striding the decks of liners with a sailorly roll on trips to America.Chapter 6, before
  19. Bertie recalls meeting Miss Mapleton at lunch at Aunt Agatha's.Chapter 7, a year before
  20. Bertie recalls being made to address a girls' school on Ideals and the Life To Come.Chapter 7, earlier
  21. Bobbie used the flower-pot trick to get back in after lock-up at St Monica's.Chapter 7, Bobbie's schooldays
  22. Bertie broods on the shortcomings of Woman, from Aunt Agatha to Clementina.Chapter 7, in the tree
  23. Bertie recalls being caught by the police after pinching Bingo Little's dictaphone record.Chapter 7, before
  24. Sippy tried to steal a policeman's helmet in Leicester Square on Bertie's advice.Chapter 7, a Boat Race night
  25. Bertie's school reports said he had little or no ability but did his best.Chapter 7, at school
  26. Aunt Dahlia married Tom Travers and, with Jeeves's help, lured Anatole away from Mrs Bingo Little.Chapter 8, before
  27. Thos marooned a Cabinet Minister on an island in the lake at Aunt Agatha's place for reporting him for smoking.Chapter 8, the previous summer
  28. Bingo tells of a man whose picnic at the races turned into a paste of champagne, ham and gorgonzola, which he ate.Chapter 9, last year
  29. When Aunt Dahlia stole Mrs Bingo's French cook Anatole, Mrs Bingo called her names that impressed Bertie.Chapter 9, a few years before
  30. Bertie recalls Bingo's lion-like way with a sandwich at past picnics.Chapter 9, before
  31. The two women accuse each other of school misdeeds: flattering the hockey captain, cribbing for the Scripture prize, and catty gossip passed via Simpson and Waddesley.Chapter 9, at school
    I had never listened in on a real, genuine Iemale row before, and I'm bound to say it was pretty impressive.
    I had never listened in on a real, genuine Iemale row before, and I'm bound to say it was pretty impressive.Charles Crombie, The Strand Magazine, February 1930
  32. Bertie recalls Bingo Little repeatedly trying to marry waitresses.Chapter 10, before Bingo's marriage
  33. Uncle George's early romance with Maudie, a Criterion barmaid, whom the family paid off.Chapter 10, years before
  34. Jeeves explains he met Rhoda through Smethurst, who has an understanding with her.Chapter 10, before
  35. Tuppy bet Bertie he couldn't swing across the Drones swimming-bath, then looped back the last ring and ruined his dress-clothes.Chapter 11, some time before
  36. Tuppy's infatuation with the opera singer Cora Bellinger ended when she punched him in the eye at Beefy Bingham's Bermondsey entertainment.Chapter 11, earlier
  37. Jeeves tells how the match was first played under Henry VIII, with seven deaths besides two spectators.Chapter 11, reign of Henry VIII onward
Right Ho, Jeeves 88 memories
  1. Gussie lives buried in Lincolnshire, never coming to London, studying the newts in his pond.Chapter 1, for years
  2. Gussie kept newts in a smelly glass tank in his study at school, and the craving grew until he retired to the country with them.Chapter 1, at school and after
  3. Sippy, whom Jeeves helped when he was trying to get engaged to Elizabeth Moon, recommended Jeeves to Gussie.Chapter 1, before
  4. Jeeves recalls that Sippy was too diffident to propose to Miss Moon, 'letting I dare not wait upon I would'.Chapter 1, before
  5. On Bertie's last visit, Gussie brought newts to the luncheon table and lost one in the salad.Chapter 1, about two years before
  6. White mess jackets were all the rage at the Cannes Casino, and Bertie bought one, fearing trouble with Jeeves on his return.Chapter 1, this summer at Cannes
  7. Gussie met Madeline in Lincolnshire when he took a thorn out of her dog's foot, and talked to her only about birds.Chapter 2, the week before last
  8. Gussie went to a Christmas party dressed as a rabbit, perked up among the other children and was sick twice in the cab home.Chapter 2, in childhood
  9. Bertie recalls wearing the mess jacket at the Casino at Cannes and describing it to an admiring Pongo the night before.Chapter 3, earlier
  10. Pongo's birthday binge proves a fruity affair that keeps Bertie out till after four.Chapter 3, that night
  11. Bertie recalls who Aunt Dahlia is: her marriage to Tom Travers, her paper Milady's Boudoir, and how she differs from Aunt Agatha.Chapter 4, years before
  12. Aunt Dahlia's booming voice is a throwback to her years of fox-hunting.Chapter 4, in her hunting days
  13. Bertie remembers the joys of Anatole's cooking at Brinkley Court.Chapter 4, past visits
  14. Aunt Dahlia lost heavily at baccarat at Cannes and has yet to tell Tom.Chapter 4, recently, at Cannes
  15. Bertie describes the explosive, then peaceful, effects of swallowing one of Jeeves's pick-me-ups.Chapter 5, on mornings after
  16. Jeeves recounts Gussie's disastrous night: wrong address, no money or latchkey, the absent caretaker, the terrified cabman, and refuge at Sipperley's.Chapter 5, the night before
  17. Bertie has got engaged three times at Brinkley, swept away by something in the air.Chapter 6, on earlier visits
  18. Bertie recalls making an ass of himself addressing a girls' school.Chapter 6, some time before
  19. Tuppy once told Angela her new hat made her look like a Pekingese.Chapter 7, some time before
  20. Bertie once wrote an article for Milady's Boudoir on What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing.Chapter 7, some time before
  21. Bertie remembers reading Othello and imagines the girl debunking his cannibal stories.Chapter 7, at school
  22. Bertie found Jeeves had not packed the white mess jacket and brought it down himself in the car.Chapter 7, earlier that day
  23. Tuppy bet Bertie he couldn't swing across the Drones swimming bath on the rings, then looped back the last ring and dropped him in in evening dress.Chapter 8, some time before, at the Drones
  24. Aunt Dahlia sniffily guessed Bertie would push Angela into the lake for Tuppy to rescue.Chapter 9, earlier that day
  25. Bertie spent two months in France and learnt faute de mieux at school.Chapter 9, recently, and at school
  26. Bertie’s telegram steering Gussie off the sausages and ham.Chapter 9, days before
  27. Uncle Tom gave Aunt Dahlia the money for the Boudoir’s printers, which she then lost at baccarat.Chapter 9, before Cannes
  28. At Bertie’s flat Gussie promised that a rural setting was all he needed to propose.Chapter 9, weeks before, in London
  29. Bertie claims he once addressed a girls’ school and held them in the hollow of his hand.Chapter 9, some time before
  30. Bertie recalls a poem about Pygmalion’s statue coming to life.Chapter 9, at school
  31. Jeeves, airing the dog in the park, quoted Gray’s Elegy about the glimmering landscape.Chapter 9, the other day
  32. In Cannes Bertie used to wish a racing motorist would ram the Bassett amidships.Chapter 9, at Cannes
  33. Pongo Twistleton, in a gondola by moonlight, could only tell a girl the joke about the Venice traffic cop.Chapter 10, once, years before
  34. At Cannes Madeline kept saying 'Oh, look' at everything from Michael Arlen to the mayor of New York in a bathing suit.Chapter 10, earlier that summer at Cannes
  35. Bertie sweated through playing Edward III to Fair Rosamund in a pageant at Aunt Agatha's place in Hertfordshire.Chapter 10, once, years before
  36. Madeline tells how a man came along when her dog got a thorn in its foot on a country walk.Chapter 10, some time before
  37. After the pageant Bertie escaped his chain mail to the local pub and savoured a tankard of home-brew.Chapter 10, after the pageant
  38. Tuppy heroically passes up the nonnettes de poulet Agnès Sorel.Chapter 11, at dinner that evening
  39. Tuppy as a tough football-playing type short on finer sensibilities.Chapter 11, in general
  40. Seppings and the footman reel when Tuppy waves aside the nonnettes.Chapter 11, at dinner that evening
  41. Uncle Tom ruined his digestion making millions in the Far East and only Anatole can feed him.Chapter 11, years before
  42. Bertie once held off a dentist's drill for ten minutes with a Scotsman, Irishman and Jew story.Chapter 11, some time before
  43. Gussie, a teetotaller full of orange juice, lectured Madeline on newts instead of proposing.Chapter 12, the previous evening
  44. Bertie has long begged Aunt Dahlia to burn the photograph of Uncle Tom in Masonic uniform, and she refuses, saying it is good for him.Chapter 12, for years
  45. Tuppy's raid on the larder for the steak-and-kidney pie, interrupted by Aunt Dahlia, Uncle Tom with a pistol and Angela, who mocks his appetite and likens him to a python.Chapter 12, the night before, about one a.m.
  46. Uncle Tom's burglar complex dates from an open scullery window, and Bertie once nearly fractured his skull on the bars he put on the windows.Chapter 12, years before
  47. Bertie says Angela spent the Riviera holiday at Cannes almost entirely with him, and that as a child she called herself his little sweetheart.Chapter 12, the past two months; childhood
  48. At the Eden rock in Antibes a girl turned on Bertie after he mocked the legs of a diver who proved to be her fiancé.Chapter 13, last month
  49. Jeeves's scheme of sending Gussie to a fancy-dress ball as Mephistopheles failed because Gussie never got there.Chapter 13, weeks before, in London
  50. Lord Brancaster's parrot, fed seed cake soaked in port, bit his thumb, sang a sea shanty and keeled over.Chapter 13, before Jeeves worked for Bertie
  51. Bertie recalls approaching Madeline Bassett in the same drawing-room with very different feelings.Chapter 14, the night before
  52. At Cannes Angela had been a happy, smiling girl full of beans.Chapter 14, earlier that summer
  53. Bertie claims Tuppy was a grubby, ink-covered outsider at their preparatory school.Chapter 14, at school
  54. Angela found Tuppy in the larder wallowing in a steak-and-kidney pie.Chapter 14, one o'clock that morning
  55. Bertie recalls being hauled off to Vine Street and giving his name as Eustace H. Plimsoll of The Laburnums, West Dulwich.Chapter 15, Boat-Race Night, some years before
  56. Bertie recalls the time Tuppy made him nose-dive into the Drones swimming bath.Chapter 15, years before
  57. Bertie borrows 'be very careful' from the magistrate who tried him as Eustace Plimsoll.Chapter 15, years before
  58. Gussie recalls Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher splitting his trousers while giving out prizes at their prep school, and the boys roaring with laughter.Chapter 16, at prep school
  59. Bertie remembers the time he had to address a girls' school.Chapter 17, in the past
  60. Jeeves tells Bertie that Gussie had altered the plot of the Pat and Mike story.Chapter 17, later
  61. Bertie compares Gussie with Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps on New Year's Eve, and Jeeves later puts it down to five years of bottled-up inhibitions among the newts.Chapter 17, later
  62. Gussie claims Bertie won the Scripture-knowledge prize at their prep school by cheating with lists of the kings of Judah.Chapter 17, at school, years before
  63. Jeeves recounts Gussie's attack on Simmons, his insinuations about Mrs Simmons and the headmaster, and the national anthem.Chapter 17, that afternoon, after Bertie left
  64. Bertie notes how everyone in the chronicle, Uncle Tom, Gussie and Tuppy among them, has buried their face in their hands.Chapter 17, earlier in the story
  65. Tuppy has never apologised for the Drones swimming-bath episode and tells it at dinners, laughing.Chapter 18, months before
  66. Tuppy looped back the last ring at the Drones and sent Bertie into the swimming bath in full evening dress.Chapter 18, months before
  67. Bertie's theory that Jeeves moves about like an Indian mystic's astral body, never needing to open doors.Chapter 18, general
  68. Bertie recalls winning the Scripture-knowledge prize, which taught him about Jael, the wife of Heber.Chapter 19, at school
  69. Bertie half-remembers Balaam's ass from his Scripture studies and likens Angela's obstinacy to it.Chapter 19, at school
  70. Bertie recalls knowing Angela since he wore sailor suits and she had no front teeth.Chapter 19, childhood
  71. Bertie recalls that at their last meeting Aunt Dahlia planned to drown him in the kitchen-garden pond.Chapter 19, earlier
  72. Aunt Dahlia recalls the curate tripping on a shoelace and falling down the pulpit steps.Chapter 19, years before
  73. Anatole picked up his mixed English working for Mrs Bingo Little and from the Maloney chauffeur of an American family at Nice.Chapter 20, before coming to Brinkley
  74. Aunt Dahlia once saved baby Bertie from choking on his rubber comforter.Chapter 20, years before, when Bertie was a baby
  75. Bertie recalls how Jeeves used his gratitude to get rid of the purple socks, the plus fours and the Old Etonian spats.Chapter 21, in the past
  76. Jeeves first proposed the fire-alarm scheme to reunite Angela and Tuppy, and Bertie called it rotten.Chapter 21, the evening of their arrival
  77. Uncle Tom chose a deafening fire bell, and Bertie remembers fire drills at Brinkley in his school holidays.Chapter 22, when Bertie was a boy
  78. Freddie Widgeon fled a seaside hotel fire without saving anyone.Chapter 22, some time before
  79. Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright let off a police rattle behind Bertie at the Drones, and young Thos. lit a parcel of fireworks.Chapter 22, in the past
  80. Bertie weighs Jeeves's defects against his magnetic, soothing power.Chapter 22, over their long association
  81. Bertie won the Choir Boys' Handicap at a school treat with a half-lap start after Willie Punting was scratched.Chapter 22, at fourteen
  82. Tuppy recalls Bertie riding naked round the quad on bump-supper nights.Chapter 22, at Oxford
  83. Uncle Cyril's tale of Nicholls and Jackson, smashed together on a tandem and collected as Nixon.Chapter 22, in Jeeves's childhood
  84. Bertie explains he was always well oiled when he rode naked round the quad.Chapter 22, at Oxford
  85. Stories of cyclists dragged by goat chains and one who ran into a circus elephant.Chapter 22, told by a pal
  86. Pongo Twistleton refused to see his aunt's son Gerald off to school and received furious letters, telegrams and a postcard.Chapter 23, some time before
  87. Jeeves's family used to invite his Aunt Annie to visit, since their shared dislike of her healed every quarrel.Chapter 23, in Jeeves's past
  88. In the garden Tuppy and Angela, and Gussie and Madeline, bonded over stories of Bertie's past.Chapter 23, earlier that night
Thank You, Jeeves 52 memories
  1. Bertie's past engagement to Glossop's daughter Honoria, broken off because Glossop thought him barmy, and the incidents of the cats and fish, the stolen hat and the punctured hot-water bottle at Lady Wickham's.Chapter 1, years before
  2. Bertie took up the banjolele after hearing Ben Bloom and his Sixteen Baltimore Buddies at the Alhambra.Chapter 1, weeks before
  3. Bertie cites the Bulgarian Elia Gospodinoff, who played the bagpipes for twenty-four hours without stopping, as reported in Ripley's 'Believe It Or Not'.Chapter 1, in the past
  4. Bertie explains that Chuffy, his schoolfellow at private school, Eton and Oxford, is stuck, hard up, in his vast house at Chuffnell Regis with Aunt Myrtle and Seabury for company.Chapter 2, boyhood to now
  5. Bertie is convinced Seabury put a lizard in his bed.Chapter 2, Bertie's last stay at the Hall
  6. Bertie recalls writers' differing views on scenery, including Freddie Oaker who writes as Alicia Seymour.Chapter 3, some time before
  7. Bertie remembers a lizard up his pyjama leg, which he is sure Seabury put in his bed.Chapter 3, some time before
  8. How Chuffy inherited the title over Seabury, who was not the fourth Baron's issue, leaving Lady Chuffnell resentful.Chapter 3, years before
  9. Bertie recalls proposing to Pauline at the Plaza and reflects that she is too dynamic for him; his ideal is more like Janet Gaynor.Chapter 4, months before, in New York
  10. Pauline brings up the cats found in Bertie's bedroom and how her father took the news.Chapter 4, before
  11. Bertie explains that Jeeves left him over the banjolele and is now with Chuffy.Chapter 4, recently
  12. Bertie recalls that Chuffy has always refused to borrow money from him.Chapter 5, for years
  13. Chuffy once saw a musical comedy with the impecunious Lord Wotwotleigh chasing an American heiress, and has never got over it.Chapter 5, some time before
  14. Glossop got Stoker to break off Bertie's engagement to Pauline within forty-eight hours.Chapter 6, in New York, about two months before
  15. Bertie spent his two-day engagement in bed with a cold, and a waiter with beef sandwiches spoiled the one tender moment.Chapter 6, in New York, months before
  16. Bertie recalls his engagement to Honoria Glossop and a pal's theory that he rouses the maternal instinct in forceful women.Chapter 6, years before
  17. Lady Chuffnell always grabbed the best egg at breakfast for Seabury before Chuffy packed them off to the Dower House.Chapter 6, years before
  18. Bertie told the magistrates his name was Eustace H. Plimsoll of the Laburnams, Alleyn Road, West Dulwich.Chapter 6, Boat Race night, second year at Oxford
  19. Brinkley, sent by the agency, is a melancholy revolutionary who has resisted all Bertie's attempts at friendliness.Chapter 6, since Jeeves left
  20. Jeeves brought Chuffy's letter to the yacht, heard Pauline's plan, and lowered her over the side by a rope, calling Bertie mentally negligible but with a heart of gold.Chapter 7, earlier that evening
  21. A manservant of Pauline's father went out for his evening in New York and next wired from Portland, Oregon, six days later.Chapter 7, years before
  22. Chuffy recalls Bertie after a bump-supper insisting he was a mermaid and wanting to dive into the college fountain and play the harp.Chapter 9, at Oxford
  23. Voules once took on ninety-six big spiders in India.Chapter 9, years before, in India
  24. Bertie's Uncle Henry kept pigs, made money from them and died of pneumonia.Chapter 9, three years before
  25. Bertie recalls having to stand firm with Jeeves over the banjolele.Chapter 10, before
  26. Bertie recounts being chased by Sergeant Voules and Constable Dobson, Chuffy putting him to bed, and Pauline walking in wearing his heliotrope pyjamas.Chapter 11, the night before
  27. Jeeves tells how Stoker questioned him about Bertie's past exploits and how he explained away Sir Roderick Glossop's version.Chapter 11, that morning
  28. Bertie classifies elderly Americans into the matey kind and the cold-eyed kind, of which Stoker is the perpetual vice-president.Chapter 11, general
  29. Bertie recalls an uncle of seventy-six who climbed trees after port.Chapter 12, years before
  30. Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright picked up Jeeves's vocabulary after a week at Bertie's flat.Chapter 12, some time before
  31. Bertie's two nights in a cell: once as one of the West Dulwich Plimsolls, once after trying to pinch a policeman's helmet with Oliver Sipperley.Chapter 12, Boat Race nights, years before
  32. Bertie skips over the escape from the yacht, saying Jeeves's arrangements left nothing to report.Chapter 13, just before
  33. Bertie recalls a newspaper puzzle asking what you would save from a burning house.Chapter 13, once, years before
  34. Bertie recalls having to stop Brinkley singing hymns in the kitchen while he played foxtrots on the banjolele.Chapter 14, on arriving at the cottage
  35. Chuffy tells how he fell in love with Pauline at first sight in the Savoy Grill lobby, where she sat over a Martini waiting for him and Sir Roderick.Chapter 14, in London, months before
  36. Sir Roderick Glossop used to sing baritone at smoking concerts.Chapter 15, years before, as a medical student
  37. Bertie recalls young Thos marooning a Cabinet Minister on an island in the lake with a swan.Chapter 15, years before
  38. Bertie recalls a roller-skating Italian boy in Washington Square crashing into his waistcoat.Chapter 16, years before, in New York
  39. Bertie reflects that Glossop, long a menace ranking with Aunt Agatha, can't be all bad since he walloped Seabury, and thinks of lunching with him.Chapter 16, years past to tonight
  40. Bertie recalls burgling Bingo Little's house for the dictaphone record of Rosie M. Banks's article for Milady's Boudoir.Chapter 16, a year or so before
  41. Bertie recalls the small morning-room where Dwight and Seabury had their epoch-making fight.Chapter 17, days before
  42. Bertie tells how he and Glossop formed a beautiful friendship in the night and Glossop left issuing lunch invitations.Chapter 17, the night before
  43. Bertie recalls how his sudden appearances in blackface terrified the scullerymaid, Chuffy and Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapter 18, the night before
  44. Bertie and Pauline recall old times, a day at Piping Rock and a night stranded in the rain in Westchester County when Bertie took off her wet stockings.Chapter 19, years before, in America
  45. Pauline explains that Chuffy proposed only once Stoker had promised to buy Chuffnell Hall.Chapter 20, the day before
  46. Bertie relates, via Jeeves and Mary the parlourmaid, how Glossop thrashed little Seabury, probably with a hairbrush.Chapter 20, last night
  47. The fire that burned Bertie's cottage also destroyed Sergeant Voules's cottage and police station, and Voules was hurt and taken to his Aunt Maud's.Chapter 21, last night
  48. Stoker had quickly guessed that Jeeves was behind Bertie's escape from the yacht.Chapter 21, last night
  49. Chuffy recalls Bertie at private school, Eton and Oxford taking the blame for others' misdeeds.Chapter 21, at school
  50. Bertie recalls that he and Chuffy once stood in the dock at Bow Street for raising Cain on Boat Race night.Chapter 22, years before
  51. Jeeves explains he cabled Benstead in New York to send back a message saying the late Mr Stoker's will was being contested, to reconcile Stoker and Glossop.Chapter 22, the day before yesterday
  52. Bertie recalls the neighbours at his flat who objected to his banjolele, and the stand he took.Chapter 22, months before
The Code of the Woosters 75 memories
  1. Bertie gave Gussie a farewell dinner at the Drones before his wedding.Chapter 1, the previous night
  2. Sir Watkyn Bassett fined Bertie five pounds at Bosher Street for trying to pinch a policeman's helmet, then retired on an inheritance.Chapter 1, a few months before, Boat Race night
  3. Bertie once wrote 'What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing' for Milady's Boudoir.Chapter 1, in the past
  4. Gussie, well oiled, addressed the prize giving at Market Snodsbury Grammar School.Chapter 1, the summer before, at Brinkley
  5. Madeline told Bertie that rabbits were gnomes attending the Fairy Queen and stars God's daisy chain.Chapter 1, once
  6. Pleading Gussie's cause, Bertie found himself engaged to Madeline until she and Gussie made up.Chapter 1, the summer before
  7. Sir Watkyn stayed at Brinkley and tried to lure Anatole away; Aunt Dahlia kept him by doubling his wages.Chapter 1, last month
  8. Bertie reflects he paid his debt to Society with the fiver Bassett fined him.Chapter 1, months before
  9. Bertie recalls that his last scrape with Gussie also began with a flood of telegrams.Chapter 2, earlier adventures
  10. Jeeves knows all about the Bassett-Wooster mix-up and the peril Bertie faces from Madeline.Chapter 2, before
  11. Gussie was known as 'Fathead' at the private school where Bertie first met him.Chapter 2, at school
  12. Aunt Dahlia once barred Bertie from Anatole's cooking for a whole month in the pheasant season.Chapter 2, before
  13. Bertie tells Jeeves of his disastrous encounter with Sir Watkyn and Spode at the antique shop.Chapter 2, the day before
  14. Bertie recalls a newly married pal whose bride had ‘Two Lovers Built This Nest’ carved over the drawing-room fireplace.Chapter 3, some time before
  15. Spode admits he once stole a policeman’s helmet himself when at Oxford.Chapter 3, at Oxford
  16. Bertie explains the antique-shop affair: the shopman handed him the cow-creamer and he stumbled out after treading on the cat.Chapter 3, the day before
  17. Madeline tells the story of the poet Rudel, who died of love on reaching the Lady Melisande.Chapter 3, in the Middle Ages
  18. Bertie recalls the dinner he gave Gussie at the Drones, where Gussie made an admirable speech.Chapter 3, two nights before
  19. Bertie remembers Gussie’s tight speech at the Market Snodsbury prize-giving.Chapter 3, the summer before
  20. Mrs Bingo Little once claimed Bingo said poetic things about sunsets.Chapter 3, after Bingo’s marriage
  21. Bertie describes the country-house tea he usually enjoys.Chapter 3, generally
  22. Gussie learned he must speak at the wedding breakfast before Spode and Sir Watkyn, who would rather Madeline had married Spode.Chapter 3, a week before
  23. Bertie contrasts Sir Watkyn’s peevishness at Bosher Street with his fizziness in the antique shop.Chapter 3, months before and the day before
  24. Sir Watkyn’s dismayed first meeting with Gussie and his sniff at the newts.Chapter 3, after the engagement
  25. Gussie recalls his panic at the Market Snodsbury prize-giving.Chapter 3, the summer before
  26. Gussie went to London and Jeeves told him to cure his fear by despising his audience.Chapter 3, a week before
  27. Gussie reveals he despised everyone while speaking at Bertie’s Drones dinner.Chapter 3, two nights before
  28. Bertie recalls raiding the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn's biscuit tin at night and finding him writing Bertie's report.Chapter 4, at his first private school
  29. Gussie took a fly out of Stiffy's eye, Stiffy picked something up, and Madeline saw and swept off in a huff.Chapter 4, yesterday before lunch
  30. Gussie showed Bertie the place on his leg where Stiffy's Scottie had bitten him.Chapter 4, at Bertie's dinner
  31. Stiffy describes being fined twice by Uncle Watkyn in his library court on Oates's evidence.Chapter 4, this year
  32. Bertie told Stiffy how he had tried to pinch a policeman's helmet in Leicester Square.Chapter 4, when Bertie gave Stiffy lunch at his flat
  33. Bertie remembers Stinker Pinker as a clumsy, enormous Rugby international who always got caught.Chapter 4, at Oxford
  34. Bobbie Wickham once got Bertie to puncture a hot-water bottle, and his own Leicester Square helmet raid failed because the strap caught.Chapter 4, years before
  35. Freddie Threepwood told Bertie of trouble at Blandings over a cousin wanting to marry a curate.Chapter 4, some time before
  36. Bertie tells Stiffy how events at Brinkley left him in danger of marrying Madeline if Gussie drops out.Chapter 4, at Brinkley Court, earlier
  37. Bertie recalls Miss Wickham and the hot-water bottle, Gwladys and her boyfriend with the broken leg, and Pauline Stoker in her bathing suit.Chapter 5, earlier adventures
  38. Uncle Tom once traded the Travers butler Pomeroy to the Bessington-Copes for an oviform chocolate pot.Chapter 5, years before
  39. Aunt Dahlia used to clump Bertie over the side of the head when he misbehaved.Chapter 5, in Bertie's boyhood
  40. Aunt Dahlia saw Uncle George kiss her governess and found it eased the strain afterwards.Chapter 5, in Aunt Dahlia's girlhood
  41. Bertie learns Jeeves wrote up the time he blacked up to escape old Stoker and the night after Pongo Twistleton’s birthday party when he took a standard lamp for a burglar.Chapter 5, earlier adventures
  42. Bertie had supposed Jeeves went to a pub in his bowler hat of an evening, not to a club in Curzon Street.Chapter 5, in the past
  43. At Brinkley, Tuppy Glossop came to Bertie’s room wanting to turn Gussie inside out.Chapter 6, a few months earlier
  44. Gussie went for Stiffy’s stocking at the drawing-room piano, and Madeline came out from behind the screen and caught him.Chapter 6, just before dinner
  45. During a rift with Jeeves, a man Bertie hired from a registry office got drunk, set fire to the house and tried to carve him up.Chapter 7, years before
  46. A girl whose name Bertie has forgotten routed a charging dog on the riverbank by opening a Japanese umbrella in its face.Chapter 7, at Oxford, in Eights Week
  47. Freddie Widgeon was chased on to a wardrobe by an Alsatian and felt the indignity of it.Chapter 8, once, at a country house visit
  48. At Aunt Agatha’s house at Woollam Chersey a swan chased Bertie and A. B. Filmer on to a roof, and Jeeves subdued it with a raincoat.Chapter 8, years before
  49. Stiffy asked Stinker when he would pinch Eustace Oates’s helmet; he refused, she broke it off, and he dropped his slides.Chapter 8, earlier that evening
  50. Stinker tells how he found Oates by a stile at Plunkett’s meadow with his helmet off and simply grabbed it.Chapter 8, earlier that evening
  51. Stiffy recalls Bertie being hauled before Sir Watkyn at Bosher Street for pinching a helmet and fined.Chapter 8, months before
  52. Bertie recalls modelling himself at Brinkley Court on a Beau in a historical novel who laughed down from lazy eyelids.Chapter 8, earlier book
  53. Bertie recalls the nursery story of the dog Diamond who chewed up his master’s manuscript.Chapter 8, in childhood
  54. Bertie recalls being caught raiding the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn's study for biscuits and summoned back next afternoon.Chapter 9, at school
  55. Sir Watkyn recalls fining Bertie five pounds at Bosher Street on Boat Race night.Chapter 9, Boat Race night, years before
  56. Pinker dropped one of Stiffy's gloves while pinching the helmet, and Oates picked it up.Chapter 9, earlier that night
  57. Bertie recalls his previous halting talk with Madeline in the Brinkley dining-room, eased by curried eggs and cheese straws.Chapter 10, the summer before
  58. Bertie recalls a groom throwing a bucket of cold water over him.Chapter 10, in Bertie's boyhood
  59. Bertie pictures Archimedes in his bath discovering the principle of displacement.Chapter 10, earlier, as told by Jeeves
  60. Bertie tells Jeeves how Sir Watkyn reeled at the idea of him as a nephew and gladly consented to Stiffy marrying Stinker.Chapter 10, earlier that evening
  61. Gussie's optimistic address to the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School.Chapter 11, at Brinkley, the previous summer
  62. Jeeves recalls luring Constable Dobson away from the potting-shed at Chuffnell Hall with word that the parlourmaid Mary was waiting in the raspberry bushes.Chapter 11, years before
  63. Bertie realises his talk with Sir Watkyn in the library was a probe about the helmet.Chapter 11, earlier that evening
  64. Gussie reminds Bertie that he once shared his last bar of milk chocolate with him.Chapter 11, at school
  65. Jeeves's account of Oates stepping out to smoke, the cow-creamer vanishing, and dim figure B striking him on the nose.Chapter 11, minutes before
  66. Bertie once hit his nurse over the head with a porringer, his only lapse in chivalry towards women.Chapter 12, at the age of six
  67. Gussie tells how he found Sir Watkyn reading the notebook in his underwear and was chased downstairs by him with a hunting crop.Chapter 12, just before
  68. Bertie recalls a similar shock with the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn.Chapter 12, schooldays
  69. Aunt Dahlia's voice could carry across two ploughed fields and a couple of spinneys.Chapter 12, her hunting days
  70. Bertie recalls speeches at routs and revels that won the plaudits of the Drones Club.Chapter 13, in the past
  71. Stinker Pinker once described being kicked in the stomach by a costermonger in Bethnal Green.Chapter 14, at Oxford
  72. Aunt Dahlia recalls Murgatroyd, the respectable-looking Brinkley butler who pawned a fish slice to bet on the dogs.Chapter 14, years before
  73. Bertie compares this with his night in the cells after the Bosher Street affair.Chapter 14, years before
  74. Pop Stoker’s advice to hit Constable Dobson with a shovel when Sir Roderick Glossop was shut in the potting-shed.Chapter 14, some time before
  75. Sir Watkyn tried to lure Anatole away during his visit to Brinkley Court.Chapter 14, some time before
Joy in the Morning 53 memories
  1. Jeeves repeatedly hinted that Bertie should take a cottage at Steeple Bumpleigh for the fishing, and Bertie firmly refused.Chapter 1, before
  2. Nobby's father, a pal of Lord Worplesdon, died and left her as Worplesdon's ward.Chapter 1, some years before
  3. Bertie heard that Aunt Agatha was to marry again, and that the man was Lord Worplesdon.Chapter 1, about eighteen months before
  4. Worplesdon caught Bertie smoking one of his special cigars in the stable yard and chased him a mile with a hunting crop.Chapter 1, when Bertie was fifteen
  5. Bertie and Florence were once engaged, and he escaped only when it was broken off at the eleventh hour.Chapter 1, not long before
  6. Madeline Bassett once gave Bertie the same melting look when he went to Totleigh Towers to pinch old Bassett's cow-creamer.Chapter 2, some time before
  7. Bertie recalls trying rowing at Oxford, with Stilton coaching from the towpath and criticising his stomach.Chapter 3, at Oxford
  8. Jeeves saw Bertie through his engagement to Florence Craye and got him out of it.Chapter 4, years before
  9. Uncle Percy once chased Bertie over a measured mile with a hunting crop when he caught him with his first cigar.Chapter 4, in Bertie's boyhood
  10. Jeeves, meeting the shabbily dressed Boko for the first time, winced and tottered off to the kitchen.Chapter 6, earlier
  11. Boko came to Steeple Bumpleigh engaged to Florence, who made him settle there.Chapter 6, before Nobby met Boko
  12. Freddie Widgeon sprang Joke Goods on the Drones lunchers, and a squeaking roll with a rubber mouse upset a hungover Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright.Chapter 7, some time before
  13. Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps was pinched by his policeman brother George on Boat-Race Night, and Freddie Widgeon by his cousin Cyril at Hurst Park.Chapter 8, years before
  14. Stilton was Captain of the Boats at Eton and rowed for Oxford, which Bertie thinks left him solid concrete above the neck.Chapter 8, at school and university
  15. Bertie explains that Aunt Agatha, like Napoleon and an elephant, never accepts excuses and never forgets a failure such as a lost brooch.Chapter 9, always
  16. Bertie recalls Edwin's grim zeal for Boy Scout acts of kindness, first met at the house in Shropshire.Chapter 10, years before
  17. Jeeves once replaced Aunt Agatha's lost Aberdeen terrier McIntosh with a lookalike.Chapter 11, some time before
  18. Bertie recalls Stilton being converted to Buddhism and cutting chapels to meditate under a substitute bo tree.Chapter 12, at Oxford
  19. Boko tells how Edwin mended his egg boiler and the egg flew out and hit him on the nose.Chapter 12, some time before
  20. Nobby explains that Uncle Percy ran with a rackety set of writers as a young man, her father among them.Chapter 12, years before
  21. Nobby recalls Bertie once giving her threepennyworth of acid drops.Chapter 12, Nobby's childhood
  22. Bertie recalls ringing the fire bell at Brinkley Court and dropping a flower pot through a greenhouse roof for Bobbie Wickham, which ended with a policeman saying 'What's all this?'.Chapter 13, years before
  23. Far lesser offences have brought Aunt Agatha after Bertie like a Red Indian on the warpath.Chapter 13, in the past
  24. Bertie compares his hovering with Stilton's outside the jeweller's shop.Chapter 13, earlier
  25. Uncle Percy, having forgotten to renew his burglary insurance, shakily gave Jeeves the letter to post in London for fear of Aunt Agatha.Chapter 14, that afternoon
  26. Jeeves arranged by telephone for Chichester Clam to drive down to the potting shed at half past midnight.Chapter 14, that afternoon
  27. Bertie pictures the placid daily routine of an American businessman like Clam, so unlike Steeple Bumpleigh.Chapter 15, imagined, Clam's usual life
  28. Bertie reflects that every pair of young lovers he has known has gone through a row like Boko's and come out of it.Chapter 16, general
  29. Edwin tells how he biffed his father in the garden in mistake for the burglar, and Florence saved him from punishment.Chapter 17, earlier that night
  30. Edwin recalls finding the brooch on the lawn where it fell from Bertie's discarded coat after the Wee Nooke explosion, and taking it to Florence.Chapter 17, that afternoon
  31. Bertie recalls Stilton coaching him at rowing and abusing his stomach.Chapter 18, at Oxford
  32. Bertie tells Florence how Stilton raged at his stomach on the river yet dined amiably with him at the Clarendon hours later.Chapter 18, at Oxford
  33. Bertie recalls that Florence ended their last engagement when he failed to do something she wanted.Chapter 19, earlier engagement
  34. Bertie recalls being caught by the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn pinching biscuits from his study and the tongue-lashing that followed.Chapter 20, at private school
  35. Bertie tells how Edwin biffed him and gave Florence the brooch as from him, so that she dropped Stilton and is engaged to Bertie again.Chapter 20, the night before
  36. Erbut, smoking in a bush, saw Boko kick the stooping Edwin over the egg boiler, and Florence break off the engagement.Chapter 20, during Boko's engagement to Florence
  37. Boko kicked Edwin in a fury after his egg boiler, tampered with by Edwin, shot an egg at his nose.Chapter 21, earlier that morning
  38. Bertie recalls Uncle Percy's long hostility to him, including the hunting-crop episode, and his terrorising of sea captains.Chapter 22, over fifteen years
  39. Edwin struck both Uncle Percy and Bertie with his Scout's stick, and Florence would not let her father punish him.Chapter 22, last night
  40. Bertie tells how Boko was kicked by Uncle Percy and seen off by a gardener with a pitchfork and a dog.Chapter 23, earlier that day
  41. Uncle Percy has long wanted to kick Edwin, but Florence stopped him, and last night Edwin hit him with his Scout's stick.Chapter 23, for years, and last night
  42. Bertie likens Jeeves's giving him the credit to Bacon writing Shakespeare's plays; Jeeves prefers Cyrano de Bergerac.Chapter 23, literary history
  43. Uncle Percy was thrown out of a Covent Garden ball and taken to Vine Street with a girl named Tottie, and Aunt Agatha broke off their engagement on reading the papers.Chapter 24, thirty years before
  44. Boko met Catsmeat at the Drones, and Catsmeat rushed off for his train with Boko's suitcase.Chapter 25, earlier that day
  45. Bertie recalls being Boko's passenger, with Boko overtaking on blind corners while telling the plot of his next novel and taking both hands off the wheel.Chapter 26, on a previous occasion
  46. Boko, taking Stilton a raincoat, fobbed off his suspicions of Bertie by suggesting young Edwin had stolen the uniform in a Boy Scout's moment of rebellion.Chapter 26, earlier that day
  47. Boko bought his huge car second-hand in his poorer days and keeps it because it brushes sports models aside in traffic.Chapter 26, years before
  48. Nobby's father Roddy, too fond of pink gin, put her in Percy's care with a clause that she needs his consent to marry.Chapter 26, years before
  49. Boko threw gravel at Nobby's window to report that he and Uncle Percy had split a bottle of champagne in perfect amity.Chapter 27, small hours of that night
  50. Bertie reflects that every policeman says 'Ho' in exactly the same way, as if taught it on joining the Force.Chapter 27, in general
  51. Edwin's alibi: he was lying bandaged on a table at the doctor's First Aid lecture in the village hall, before dozens of witnesses.Chapter 27, the previous evening
  52. Boko recounts winning Worplesdon's blessing at the ball, then driving home without noticing him on the floor of the car.Chapter 28, the night before
  53. Bertie recalls the story of Lot's wife turning into a pillar of salt.Chapter 29, Biblical times
The Mating Season 58 memories
  1. Aunt Agatha ordered Bertie to put up Thos for three days and then go to Deverill Hall to perform at the village concert.Chapter 1, days before
  2. Bertie recalls Gussie: fish-faced, newt-collecting, orange-juice-drinking, engaged to Madeline Bassett.Chapter 1, earlier stories
  3. Madeline is convinced Bertie pines for her and would marry her if she dropped Gussie.Chapter 1, before
  4. Bertie and Corky have been friends since they went to the same dancing class.Chapter 2, childhood
  5. Catsmeat remembers his whiskered farmer grandfather, the source of Corky's love of country life.Chapter 2, years before
  6. Catsmeat met Gertrude producing amateur theatricals at a house in Norfolk and they got engaged.Chapter 2, weeks before
  7. Bertie stayed at Basingstoke with his old nurse, Nurse Hogg, who suffered from hiccups.Chapter 2, Bertie's boyhood
  8. Esmond Haddock earlier gave Corky a similar rush, and she is sore about it.Chapter 2, a short while before
  9. Thos once put a drawing-pin on Catsmeat's chair.Chapter 3, before
  10. Bertie once won a prize for Scripture Knowledge.Chapter 3, at private school
  11. Bertie and Corky attended the same dancing class, he in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit.Chapter 3, in childhood
  12. Corky broke off her secret engagement to Esmond when he was too scared of his aunts to announce it.Chapter 3, weeks before
  13. Catsmeat recalls arriving at Southport on a rainy Sunday morning.Chapter 3, in Catsmeat's touring days
  14. The Rev. Aubrey Upjohn praised Sir Philip Sidney's selfless sacrifice to the boys of Malvern House and told Wooster to close his mouth.Chapter 4, at school, aged twelve
  15. Jeeves once murmured 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came' as they arrived at a sticky country house.Chapter 5, some time before
  16. Bertie recalls how he used to tremble beneath butlers' eyes as a young man.Chapter 5, Bertie's early days about town
  17. Catsmeat had walked with Gertrude in an old garden on twilight evenings.Chapter 5, before
  18. Bertie had taken Aunt Agatha's son to the Old Vic, and Jeeves once quoted 'how sharper than a serpent's tooth'.Chapter 5, before
  19. Bertie was arrested and fined for trying to pinch a policeman's helmet in Piccadilly, having forgotten to shove before lifting.Chapter 5, Boat Race night, some time before
  20. Jeeves admits Uncle Charlie often dandled him on his knee.Chapter 8, Jeeves's childhood
  21. The magistrate changed his mind and fined Gussie five pounds instead of sending him to prison.Chapter 8, the day before
  22. Jeeves recalls how Bingo Little became a changed man after a success.Chapter 8, years before
  23. Catsmeat made Gussie wade in the Trafalgar Square fountain at five in the morning, which got him arrested.Chapter 9, shortly before
  24. At their dancing class Corky made Bertie throw a mouldy orange at the instructress, and he did it without a murmur.Chapter 9, in childhood
  25. Bertie recalls the nameless fear of being summoned to the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn's study at Malvern House.Chapter 10, at school
  26. Freddie Widgeon of the Drones once crept up behind Bertie in Dover Street and tooted a motor horn in his ear.Chapter 10, years before
  27. Bertie once socked Corky on the top-knot with a wooden dumb-bell after she mocked his pimples.Chapter 10, aged eight, at dancing class
  28. Madeline once told Catsmeat at a bazaar the whole story of how she stands with Bertie.Chapter 11, some time before
  29. Catsmeat recalls that Bertie once made a colossal ass of himself over Corky.Chapter 11, years before
  30. Catsmeat tells how Queenie broke off her engagement to the atheist Dobbs over Jonah and the Whale and returned his ring, letters and a Blackpool china ornament.Chapter 11, this morning
  31. Bertie recalls Esmond, full of port, declaring that Corky is still the lodestar of his life.Chapter 12, the night before
  32. Bingo Little, emboldened when his baby wins a baby contest, bullies his stingy proprietor P.P. Purkiss into giving him a raise at Wee Tots.Chapter 12, some time before
  33. Bertie and Catsmeat decide the crisis must go to Jeeves, and Catsmeat drives up to London in Bertie's two-seater.Chapter 13, the previous evening
  34. Catsmeat finds Jeeves in the kitchen of Bertie's flat reading Spinoza and waits while he thinks out a scheme.Chapter 13, that morning
  35. Thos has run away from school twice before, once for a cup final and once to hunt buried treasure in the Caribbees, and got six of the best each time.Chapter 13, years before
  36. Catsmeat recalls making Gussie chase newts in the Trafalgar Square fountain, and blames Bertie for having him give Gussie dinner.Chapter 14, before
  37. Bertie recalls seeing Catsmeat's school report, in which the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn called him 'brilliant but unsound', while hunting biscuits in Upjohn's study.Chapter 14, at school
  38. Madeline tells the plot of Mervyn Keene, Clubman, whose hero is shot stealing his lost love's rose.Chapter 17, in the novel
  39. Hilda broke off her engagement to Harold Anstruther after he hogged the game in a Mixed Doubles and called her a rabbit.Chapter 17, not long ago
  40. Beefy Anstruther was Bertie's Rackets partner in his last year at Oxford.Chapter 17, at Oxford
  41. Bertie sketches Thos: carroty-haired, cynical, supercilious and tactless with cousins.Chapter 18, always
  42. Bertie recalls the haggard wrecks left by Catsmeat whenever he meant well.Chapter 18, in the past
  43. Since Dame Daphne stopped the after-dinner port Bertie has had no talk alone with Esmond, who goes about looking Byronic, a word Bertie checked with Jeeves.Chapter 19, since Bertie's arrival
  44. Bertie recalls Corky as a fiery, impulsive child in rompers with a tooth missing.Chapter 20, in childhood
  45. Bertie recalls Catsmeat swaying Gussie in Trafalgar Square by threatening to bean him with a bottle, and Corky's swaying of Bertie with an orange at dancing school.Chapter 20, before
  46. The Vicar's talk of Pharaoh's plagues gives Corky the idea of a Plague of Frogs for Dobbs.Chapter 21, the night before
  47. Gussie tells how Dobbs found him among the frogs, how he denied all knowledge, and how Dobbs refused to free Sam Goldwyn after a second bite.Chapter 21, just before
  48. Full of Dickensy benevolence after Gertrude's note, Catsmeat comforts Queenie on his knee in the servants' hall and is caught by Silversmith and Gertrude.Chapter 21, that morning
  49. Bertie explains how Corky's programme was hijacked by the Kegley-Bassington clan's vested interests.Chapter 22, before the concert
  50. Bertie imagines the family pressure that forced George into reciting.Chapter 22, before the concert
  51. Bertie recalls that 'Ben Battle' was once in his own repertoire.Chapter 22, Bertie's early days
  52. Bertie remembers Florence Craye taking him to Russian plays on Sunday nights to improve his soul.Chapter 22, when engaged to Florence
  53. Bertie recalls the rehearsal with Esmond interrupted by Dame Daphne, and Catsmeat's report of the yells heard at Basingstoke over his engagement to Gertrude.Chapter 22, the first night, over the port
  54. Bertie, who has known Gussie since boyhood as a newt-fancier and fathead, never suspected he could sprint.Chapter 24, since early boyhood
  55. Bertie recalls his differences with Jeeves over purple socks and white dinner jackets, and wonders if Jeeves might cosh him in a future one.Chapter 24, in the past
  56. Esmond recalls their talk over the port when Bertie touched up Aunt Charlotte's lyric and Esmond told him Corky had given him the brush-off.Chapter 25, Bertie's first night at Deverill Hall
  57. Corky broke off their earlier engagement because Esmond was under his aunts' thumb.Chapter 25, before
  58. Bertie recalls reciting 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' or 'Ben Battle' and then the poet Scott as an encore.Chapter 27, in Bertie's youth
Ring for Jeeves 59 memories
  1. Why a White Hunter met in an English inn might be taken for a ghost.Chapter 1, general
  2. Biggar fell in love with Mrs Spottsworth the moment A.B. Spottsworth drove her into camp, and has silently burned ever since.Chapter 1, years before, on safari in Kenya
  3. Tubby Frobisher and the Subahdar used to denounce fortune-hunters at the Anglo-Malay Club.Chapter 1, in Kuala Lumpur
  4. Bill met a rich and beautiful American widow, Mrs Bessemer, in Cannes, but the romance came to nothing.Chapter 2, years before, just after Monica's marriage
  5. Bill offered the abbey for a song to a charity as a home for juvenile delinquents and was sneered at.Chapter 2, some time before
  6. Monica met Mrs Spottsworth at a women's lunch in New York and sold her on the abbey.Chapter 2, days before
  7. Monica read the Girl's Own Paper in the living room and kept white rabbits until Uncle George banned them.Chapter 2, in Monica's childhood
  8. Jill recalls keeping the dogs off the guests at Rory and Monica's rainy wedding when she was fifteen, and meeting Rory again when she was coming out.Chapter 3, years before
  9. Rory starts recalling Bill's romances with buxom girls such as one in the Hippodrome chorus until Monica kicks him.Chapter 3, years before
  10. Bill proposed to Jill while helping her give a sick cow a bolus; Rory's own proposal to Monica was 'Eh, what?'Chapter 3, some weeks before
  11. Monica remembers Bill dashing between race-courses in a grey topper full of sandwiches; Jill says he has promised never to bet again.Chapter 3, in the old days
  12. Bill's Drones Club reputation for a shortage of grey cells, rated between Freddie Widgeon and Pongo Twistleton.Chapter 4, since his schooldays
  13. Jeeves had urged Bill to lay off Biggar's second wager, uneasy when he saw Whistler's Mother go to the post.Chapter 4, that afternoon
  14. Needing money for his marriage, Bill went through the telephone directory with Jeeves, who suggested Turf Accountant on reaching the T's.Chapter 4, months before
  15. Bill has strewn Agricultural Board forms about to fool Jill, who made him promise never to bet again.Chapter 4, earlier in the engagement
  16. Jill's rounds: ointment for Mike the terrier, the cook's goldfish off its food, and a bolus for a cow.Chapter 5, earlier that afternoon
  17. Bill recalls Bertie's praise of Jeeves's fish-fed brain, and Jeeves explains he left Bertie only because Bertie is at a school where he learns to darn his own socks.Chapter 5, before
  18. A.B. Spottsworth, on the ouija board, tells his widow it is time she married again, and Clifton Bessemer agrees.Chapter 6, two days before
  19. Captain Biggar turned beetroot every time he caught her eye over the eland steaks, so she knew he loved her.Chapter 6, on safari in Kenya
  20. How she came to admire Biggar in Kenya, and how Clifton Bessemer won her by swatting a fly and A.B. Spottsworth by cursing a Paris taxi driver.Chapter 6, years before
  21. Monica softened Mrs Spottsworth up about the Abbey at a women's lunch in New York.Chapter 6, earlier, in New York
  22. Bill recalls his innocent but matey Riviera friendship with Mrs Bessemer, who called him Billiken, and that he never told Jill about her.Chapter 7, a few years before
  23. Mrs Spottsworth's first husband Clifton Bessemer died in a collision with a beer truck on the Jericho Turnpike.Chapter 7, years before
  24. Rory remembers the Friday sightseers, the Gogglers, who toured the Abbey at a bob a head before the old lord sold off its treasures.Chapter 7, years before
  25. A woman in a fireman's helmet, unhinged by an Australian legacy, smashed a decanter at Rory's head in the Jugs, Bottles and Picnic Supplies.Chapter 7, soon after Rory joined Harrige's
  26. Rory and Monica recall the Bigger Family riddle game they played as children.Chapter 7, in childhood
  27. A.B. Spottsworth's dictum that the secret of a happy life was to get rid of the women early.Chapter 8, during his lifetime
  28. Bertie Wooster once took the idea for a ballad, 'Way Down upon the Soigné River', from a remark of Jeeves's.Chapter 8, some time before
  29. Bill's summer at Cannes with Mrs Spottsworth, then Mrs Bessemer: moonlight drives to St Tropez and bathing from the Eden Roc.Chapter 9, some years before
  30. Jeeves's late Aunt Emily, keen on psychical research, in whom few people were ever interested.Chapter 9, years before
  31. Mrs Spottsworth, a sentimentalist at heart, wrote grim vers libre in Greenwich Village only because editors liked squalor.Chapter 10, years before
  32. Mrs Spottsworth once owned a lethargic hound dog who had to be kicked out for his nightly airing.Chapter 10, years before
  33. Bill had promised Monica to coo to Mrs Spottsworth, and his cooing is of stellar quality, unmatched since May Week dances at Cambridge.Chapter 10, earlier
  34. The legend of the dower chest: a Lord Rowcester's daughter escaped to her explorer lover hidden inside it.Chapter 10, centuries ago
  35. Jeeves dabbled in the First World War; Bill served in the Commandos in the second.Chapter 11, the two World Wars
  36. Biggar meets his old Uppingham schoolfellow Beau Sycamore, now a beachcomber, in the Long Bar at Shanghai, and buys the pendant from him with Tubby Frobisher and the Subahdar.Chapter 12, a few years before
  37. Biggar wins the pendant at dice and gives it to Mrs Spottsworth as a memento after her husband is killed by a lion.Chapter 12, years before
  38. A Rowcester ancestor went to the scaffold on Tower Hill with the same quiet courage.Chapter 13, seventeenth century
  39. A Rowcester ancestor was caught cheating at cards by Charles James Fox at Wattier's.Chapter 13, 1782
  40. Biggar tells how Tubby Frobisher's Charleston shook stolen silver out of the Greek consul's kleptomaniac wife's dress at an embassy ball.Chapter 14, years before
  41. Biggar, unable to bear the sight, storms out to pace the lawn in a black mood.Chapter 14, same evening
  42. Bertie Wooster once told Bill there was no crisis Jeeves could not handle.Chapter 15, before
  43. Jeeves once had to speak to Bertie Wooster about his mauve pyjamas.Chapter 15, in the past
  44. Over Martinis at the Drones, Bertie used to tell Bill about Jeeves and the psychology of the individual.Chapter 15, before
  45. Alexander Graham Bell's friend George, told of the telephone, is imagined as speechless as Bill.Chapter 15, 1876
  46. Pomona took a fancy to Bill when he cooed at her on the rustic seat.Chapter 15, earlier
  47. Colonel Wyvern remembers the vast, three-chinned vintage butlers of his youth in London.Chapter 16, the colonel's young manhood, turn of the century
  48. Bill and Mrs Spottsworth swam together at Eden Roc and drove in the moonlight in Cannes.Chapter 16, some years before
  49. A club acquaintance annoyed by his bridge once compared the colonel to an overfed retired midget.Chapter 16, years before
  50. A fellow from out East once told Rory that all men from those parts are frightful liars.Chapter 17, when Rory was in Guns, Pistols and Ammunition
  51. Rory's dog lost a race when a real rabbit got loose on the track.Chapter 17, some time before
  52. Mrs Spottsworth honeymooned with racing-mad Mr Bessemer at Sheepshead Bay.Chapter 17, years before
  53. Jeeves rattled off horses, times and records when Rory asked about the Derby.Chapter 17, yesterday
  54. Mr Spottsworth bought the pendant from a fat Chinaman in Bombay during an earthquake.Chapter 17, years before
  55. Jeeves recalls Jael, who drove a spike into a man's head.Chapter 18, Bible times
  56. Jeeves explains that Lady Agatha, wife of Sir Caradoc the Crusader, is reputed to haunt the ruined chapel.Chapter 19, centuries before
  57. Jeeves recounts Bill's career as the bookmaker Honest Patch Perkins, the ruinous double at Epsom, Biggar's pursuit and the plot to steal the pendant.Chapter 19, recent weeks
  58. Mrs Spottsworth sang at Tubby Frobisher's wedding to the immensely rich widow Cora Rockmetteller.Chapter 22, a week before Mrs Spottsworth left America
  59. Bertie was expelled from his school after his prize-winning darned socks turned out to be the work of an old woman he smuggled into his study.Chapter 22, recently
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 48 memories
  1. Jeeves takes his annual holiday shrimping at Bognor Regis, leaving Bertie a shadow of himself.Chapter 1, every July
  2. Jeeves belongs to the Junior Ganymede, a club for butlers and valets in Curzon Street.Chapter 1, ongoing
  3. Florence Craye, Lord Worplesdon's daughter and now Aunt Agatha's stepdaughter, wrote the highbrow novel Spindrift.Chapter 1, about a year before
  4. After a single special Bertie once struck the table and told Aunt Agatha to stop talking rot.Chapter 1, once, before
  5. Stilton drew Bertie in the Drones Darts sweep and has since watched him like a Borstal official.Chapter 2, recently
  6. Florence once broke with Stilton and got engaged to Bertie, and Stilton threatened to tear Bertie limb from limb before they made it up.Chapter 2, not long before
  7. Bertie corrects the reader's picture of Florence: tall, willowy and platinum-blonde, not a dumpy bluestocking.Chapter 3, general
  8. Florence snatched a mystery thriller from Bertie and made him read Tolstoy.Chapter 3, during his earlier engagement
  9. Stilton's rowing career: Captain of Boats at Eton, four years for Oxford, Leander at Henley, and the resulting brawn.Chapter 4, from the cradle up
  10. Florence has been moving in Bohemian circles in Chelsea and Bloomsbury, where repartee is sharp.Chapter 4, of late
  11. How the club book revealed Roderick Spode's secret as Eulalie Sœurs and let Bertie crush him.Chapter 4, at Totleigh Towers, earlier
  12. Rosie M. Banks sends Bingo out to gather atmosphere for her novels.Chapter 4, often
  13. Bertie once wrote a piece on What The Well-Dressed Man Is Wearing for Aunt Dahlia's Milady's Boudoir.Chapter 5, some years before
  14. Bertie once won a prize for Scripture Knowledge and half remembers the deaf adder.Chapter 5, at private school
  15. Horace and Valerie nearly parted for ever until a woman who looked as if she bred cocker spaniels told them of her lost love and the yearly white violets.Chapter 5, before Horace's marriage
  16. Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, who came before the Vinton Street magistrate on January the first, had warned Bertie he was a man to avoid.Chapter 6, one New Year's morning, years before
  17. Uncle Joseph spots Bertie in a group photograph at Stilton's flat and tells of trying him for tripping a policeman in a night club.Chapter 7, lunch that day
  18. A telegram once started the affair of Sir Watkyn Bassett, Roderick Spode and the silver cow-creamer Aunt Dahlia told Bertie to pinch.Chapter 8, earlier
  19. Aunt Dahlia's hunting days with the Quorn and Pytchley gave her her booming voice.Chapter 8, years before
  20. Bertie rhapsodises on Anatole's lunches and dinners.Chapter 8, generally
  21. Uncle Tom, a retired merchant prince, suffers agonies for weeks whenever he pays his income tax.Chapter 9, every year
  22. Bertie recalls winning a prize for Scripture Knowledge at Aubrey Upjohn's school at Bramley-on-Sea; Aunt Dahlia bets he cribbed.Chapter 9, at school
  23. Aunt Dahlia explains Ma Trotter's feud with Mrs. Alderman Blenkinsop for the crown of Liverpool society.Chapter 9, ongoing
  24. Percy's look reminds Bertie of the austerity of Stilton's Uncle Joseph at Vinton Street police court.Chapter 9, before
  25. Percy describes handing Florence the telegram in the stable yard and her announcing that Stilton had broken the engagement.Chapter 10, shortly before
  26. Uncle Tom prowls the garden at night because a doctor told him fresh air would help his insomnia.Chapter 11, habitually
  27. Aunt Dahlia tells how she had Aspinall's copy the necklace and pawned the real one with a moneylender after Tom refused to pay for the serial.Chapter 12, weeks before
  28. Bingo Little has told Bertie what would happen if Mrs. Bingo got the goods on him.Chapter 12, in the past
  29. Jeeves once spent months studying jewellery under a cousin in the trade.Chapter 12, years before
  30. Bertie recalls how Jeeves enabled him to reduce Roderick Spode to jelly at Totleigh Towers.Chapter 12, earlier
  31. Aunt Dahlia had the window bars removed after the time everyone was locked out of Brinkley.Chapter 12, on an earlier visit
  32. Aunt Dahlia dandled the infant Bertie and once saved his life when he half-swallowed a rubber comforter.Chapter 12, in Bertie's infancy
  33. Bertie recalls being made by his mother to recite 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' to visitors.Chapter 13, at about seven
  34. Bertie recalls putting up Aunt Agatha's son Thos in London and taking him to the Old Vic and Madame Tussaud's.Chapter 13, years before
  35. Sent for Spinoza for Jeeves, Bertie was handed Spindrift in a bookshop, and Florence came in and autographed it for him.Chapter 13, some time before
  36. Aunt Agatha made Lord Worplesdon give up smoking, and he behaved like a trapped bear.Chapter 14, recently
  37. Aunt Dahlia recalls how Bertie made the advancing Spode wilt by saying he knew all about Eulalie.Chapter 15, at Totleigh Towers, some time before
  38. Stilton and Florence quarrelled after Stilton learned Bertie had taken her to The Mottled Oyster and then found him in her cupboard.Chapter 15, about a week before
  39. Percy proposed to Florence in the herbaceous border while holding her flower basket.Chapter 15, shortly after breakfast
  40. Jeeves had impounded a cosh that Aunt Agatha's son Thos had bought.Chapter 16, at Deverill Hall, some time before
  41. Jeeves once felled Constable Dobbs with the cosh, which is why Bertie trusts it against Stilton.Chapter 16, at Deverill Hall, some time before
  42. Aunt Dahlia recounts how Tom took Spode to the safe, Seppings called Tom away, Spode revealed he had sold Eulalie Sœurs, and she coshed him with a cosh she found on the floor.Chapter 18, earlier that evening
  43. Bertie recalls the story of Lot's wife from the Scripture Knowledge prize he won at school.Chapter 18, at private school
  44. Bertie's vision of an inspector and Sergeant Fotheringay handcuffing him for stealing the pearls.Chapter 19, imagined future
  45. Worple, Trotter's valet, rescued the draft of Trotter's letter refusing a knighthood and sent it to the Junior Ganymede archives.Chapter 19, some months before
  46. Stilton recalls that Florence said he had a head like a pumpkin, which cured him of loving her.Chapter 20, recently
  47. Spode describes being hit on the head by something hard and waking in his room, which Aunt Dahlia passes off as a giddy fall.Chapter 20, the previous evening
  48. Bertie reflects that the moustache made him too fascinating to Florence Craye.Chapter 22, recently
Jeeves in the Offing 59 memories
  1. Bertie and Kipper were at Malvern House together and were caned side by side in Aubrey Upjohn's study.Chapter 1, years before, at school
  2. At Skeldings, egged on by Bobbie Wickham, Bertie punctured Sir Roderick Glossop's hot-water bottle, meaning it for Tuppy, who had changed rooms.Chapter 1, some time before
  3. Bertie reflects on Bobbie Wickham's explosive nature, her refusal of him, and Jeeves's warning that she lacked seriousness.Chapter 1, some time before
  4. Kipper once consoled Bertie that at least they would never see Aubrey Upjohn again.Chapter 1, some time before
  5. Sir Roderick Glossop once found twenty-three cats, put there by Claude and Eustace, in Bertie's bedroom.Chapter 2, years before
  6. Kipper and Bertie recall the sausages, boiled mutton and margarine of Malvern House.Chapter 2, at school
  7. Kipper explains how he came to review Upjohn's book and gave it six hundred unsigned words of abuse.Chapter 2, recently
  8. Since the hot-water-bottle episode at her house, Lady Wickham has regarded Bertie as a rat of the underworld.Chapter 2, some time before
  9. Bobbie met Kipper at a Swiss hotel and fell for him while untangling him on the beginners' ski slope.Chapter 3, last Christmas
  10. Bobbie was convulsed with mirth when Bertie trod on a rake in the garden at Skeldings.Chapter 3, years before
  11. Aunt Dahlia used to clump Bertie on the head and has since urged him to drown himself in the kitchen-garden pond.Chapter 3, in Bertie's childhood and since
  12. Upjohn used to cane Bertie with the whangee in his study at Malvern House.Chapter 3, at school, fifteen years before
  13. Upjohn recalls that at Malvern House Bertie was called Bungling Wooster and always tripped over chairs.Chapter 4, at prep school
  14. Upjohn took Phyllis to Chekhov's Seagull in Birmingham, and Bertie remembers Aunt Agatha making him take Thos to it at the Old Vic.Chapter 4, days before; years before
  15. Bertie recalls Bobbie's earlier inspiration, the hot-water-bottle episode, that night of terror.Chapter 4, years before
  16. Bobbie is fond of Uncle Tom because he is the living image of a wire-haired terrier she once loved.Chapter 5, years before
  17. Bertie recalls hearing Uncle Tom on silver for hours and once stealing an eighteenth-century cow-creamer for him.Chapter 5, some time before
  18. Wilbert's record of stink bombs and cashing a cheque at gunpoint.Chapter 6, before
  19. Glossop recalls once judging Bertie insane over twenty-three cats in his bedroom.Chapter 6, several years before
  20. Bertie and Jeeves discussed Wilbert, and Jeeves half-remembered hearing something about him.Chapter 6, before Jeeves's holiday
  21. Bertie remembers sneaking into Aubrey Upjohn's study at Malvern House for biscuits, finding Upjohn eating them, and getting six of the best next morning.Chapter 7, at school
  22. Bertie once asked Aunt Dahlia to put him in the Blue Room and she merely said 'You?'Chapter 8, on an earlier visit
  23. Bertie's wide reading of mystery stories has taught him that loot is always hidden on top of the cupboard.Chapter 8, since early boyhood
  24. Bertie recalls leaving Skeldings Hall down a water pipe at three in the morning after the hot-water-bottle incident.Chapter 8, years before
  25. Uncle Tom used to send Bertie postal orders of up to ten bob when he was at Malvern House.Chapter 8, at school
  26. Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright's motoring sketch about driving to Glasgow in half an hour.Chapter 9, at Drones smoking concerts
  27. Kipper recalls sharing sweets with Bertie at school and catching mumps and measles from each other.Chapter 9, boyhood
  28. Gussie Fink-Nottle, bullied by Aunt Dahlia into presenting the Market Snodsbury prizes, got pickled and disgraced himself.Chapter 9, the previous summer
  29. Upjohn's bare upper lip used to make his pupils quail when he twitched it.Chapter 9, at school
  30. Glossop recalls being praised as a juvenile bloodhound at hunt-the-slipper at Christmas parties.Chapter 10, in Glossop's youth
  31. Glossop and Bertie discover that both used to steal biscuits from their headmasters' studies at night; Glossop was never caught, Bertie was once.Chapter 10, at prep school
  32. Kipper tells how, after reading The Times announcement, he wrote Bobbie a furious letter, then forgot it until too late to stop her opening it.Chapter 10, earlier that day
  33. Jeeves lunched with a friend at Folkestone and judged a bathing belles contest won by Marlene Higgins.Chapter 11, earlier that day
  34. Bertie recalls Jeeves quoting the ghost in Hamlet about a tale that would make hair stand on end like a porcupine's quills.Chapter 11, some time before
  35. Conditions under Aubrey Upjohn were tough, the Sunday sausages being, by Kipper's account, made from diseased pigs.Chapter 11, at school
  36. Bertie used to sing the Yeoman's Wedding Song at village concerts, struggling with the long note on 'morning'.Chapter 11, years before
  37. Aunt Dahlia's view-halloo, learned in the hunting field, could lift Quorn and Pytchley riders out of their saddles.Chapter 12, in her hunting days
  38. Bertie recounts how Bobbie's Times announcement provoked Kipper's Otway-style letter, which she opened because he told her not to.Chapter 12, days before
  39. Bertie tells how Mrs Cream twice caught him searching Wilbert's room, once with a chair round his neck and once under the dressing-table.Chapter 12, earlier at Brinkley
  40. Bobbie laughed heartily when a rake jumped up and hit Bertie on the nose.Chapter 12, years before
  41. Jeeves once lugged Bertie to the Louvre to view the weary-eyelidded woman in a painting.Chapter 12, some time before
  42. Bertie recalls that he and Kipper endured dark days together at Upjohn's Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea.Chapter 13, boyhood
  43. Bobbie tells how Kipper gave her the review proof to drop at the office and she added the bit about the sausages.Chapter 13, weeks before
  44. Glossop pushed Mr Simmons into the river so George Lanchester could save him and win consent to marry Bertha.Chapter 14, in Glossop's youth
  45. Upjohn's shaved-off moustache nearly made Kipper lose his nerve and call the plan off, needing a series of pep talks.Chapter 15, earlier that day
  46. In Charley's Aunt at the Market Snodsbury Town Hall, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright left the stage mid-act with a nose bleed.Chapter 15, years before
  47. Bertie once offered to call his Uncle Percy names so that Boko Fittleworth could come in and defend him.Chapter 16, some time before
  48. The study reminds Bertie of Upjohn's lair at Malvern House, where he was summoned for his misdeeds.Chapter 16, at school
  49. Bertie grew a moustache but had to get rid of it because public sentiment was against it.Chapter 16, last year
  50. Aunt Dahlia ran the women's weekly Milady's Boudoir for four years at Uncle Tom's expense; Bertie once wrote a piece for it, and it has just been sold.Chapter 17, years before
  51. Jane Mills, whose first husband drowned drunk in the Thames, made Aunt Dahlia promise to stop Phyllis marrying an outsider.Chapter 17, years before
  52. Bertie recalls being summoned to Upjohn's study at Malvern House after morning prayers.Chapter 17, at school
  53. Bertie remembers Upjohn trying him for breaking the drawing-room window with a cricket ball.Chapter 17, at school
  54. A girl at Oxford saved Bertie from a charging hound by opening a Japanese umbrella in its face.Chapter 17, at Oxford
  55. Out with the Pytchley, Aunt Dahlia once had wet mud kicked into her face by another rider's horse.Chapter 17, in her hunting days
  56. Aunt Dahlia's tale of the infant Bertie refusing his cereal, and Bertie's school prize for Scripture Knowledge.Chapter 19, in childhood and at school
  57. Upjohn at Malvern House on the occasion Bertie put sherbet in the ink.Chapter 19, at prep school
  58. Bertie recalls forgetting the name of an Oxford friend called Robinson, and a Herbert Robinson charged at Bosher Street with stealing checked trousers.Chapter 20, at Oxford and a few days before
  59. Uncle Tom used to send Bertie postal orders, sometimes for as much as ten bob, in his Malvern House days.Chapter 21, at school
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 67 memories
  1. Aunt Dahlia borrowed Jeeves to buttle at a Brinkley house party when her butler fell ill.Chapter 1, the past week
  2. Jeeves once quoted a drawing-room ballad about Freddie Widgeon after a girl gave him the bird.Chapter 1, some time before
  3. The Totleigh Towers affair: Sir Watkyn pinched Uncle Tom's cow-creamer, Bertie and Aunt Dahlia pinched it back, and Bertie was locked in his room under police guard.Chapter 1, recently
  4. Aunt Dahlia's hunting days, when her voice carried across several counties.Chapter 1, years before
  5. Pop Stoker once kidnapped Bertie on his yacht to make him marry Pauline, who ended up marrying Chuffy instead.Chapter 2, some time before
  6. Bertie's hosts never stand him for more than a week and leave time-tables marked with trains in his room.Chapter 2, habitually
  7. Aunt Agatha made Bertie take Thos to see Patience.Chapter 2, once, years before
  8. Stinker's rugby career for Oxford, England and the Harlequins, and his gentle nature off the field.Chapter 3, years before and since
  9. Stinker broke a valuable vase of Sir Watkyn's, putting him off giving the vicarage.Chapter 3, recently, at Brinkley
  10. How Bertie, pleading Gussie's cause, was taken by Madeline to be pleading his own, and became her next in line should she drop Gussie.Chapter 4, earlier
  11. Stiffy got Stinker Pinker to pinch Constable Oates's helmet after Oates reported Bartholomew for upsetting him off his bicycle.Chapter 4, on an earlier visit to Totleigh
  12. Aunt Dahlia recalls Bassett trying to steal Anatole and hints he swindled a man called Plank.Chapter 5, before
  13. Bassett bought Totleigh furnished from a hard-up lord, and as a magistrate once fined Bertie five quid on Boat Race Night, supposedly pocketing the fines.Chapter 5, years before
  14. Bertie recalls a newly-married pal whose bride had 'Two Lovers Built This Nest' carved over the fireplace.Chapter 5, some time before
  15. Monty Bodkin once patted a weeping girl's head and forgot to take his hand off while his fiancée watched.Chapter 5, before
  16. Aunt Agatha makes Bertie take Thos to Russian plays at the Old Vic to improve his mind.Chapter 6, from time to time
  17. Bertie lunched Emerald at the Ritz wearing an Alpine hat, which Jeeves still disapproves of.Chapter 7, the day before
  18. Gussie's prodigious appetite at the Drones, where a tapeworm would raise its hat to him.Chapter 7, habitually
  19. Gussie had to refuse Anatole's finest dishes night after night while on his vegetarian diet.Chapter 7, earlier, at Brinkley Court
  20. Emerald lost her monthly allowance backing Sunny Jim at Kempton Park and, too proud to borrow or confess to her fearsome father, became a cook.Chapter 7, earlier this month
  21. At a studio party Gussie mentioned to Emerald that Sir Watkyn needed a cook.Chapter 7, before
  22. Emerald once or twice gave Bertie dinner at her flat and cooked impeccably.Chapter 7, before
  23. Bertie barely ate at dinner for catching Pop Bassett's and Spode's eyes, as happens to him at meals with Aunt Agatha.Chapter 8, earlier that evening
  24. Bertie's earlier ordeal at Totleigh Towers at least taught him the way to the kitchen.Chapter 8, on his previous visit
  25. At Bosher Street police court Sir Watkyn convulsed the court with three jokes at Bertie's expense.Chapter 8, years before
  26. Sir Watkyn's diplomat father carried the clock safely from Rome to Vienna, Paris, Washington and Lisbon.Chapter 8, many years before
  27. An angry swan chased Bertie and a friend on to a boathouse roof at Aunt Agatha's place until Jeeves came to the rescue.Chapter 8, some years before
  28. Pop Bassett bought the statuette from the hard-up Plank for a fiver and gloated about it to Mr. Travers at Brinkley.Chapter 9, before, at Brinkley
  29. Stiffy had Stinker write a sermon on Naboth's Vineyard to shame her uncle, but he upset a lamp and burned it.Chapter 9, recently
  30. Bertie once won a prize for Scripture Knowledge.Chapter 9, at school
  31. Bertie used to pinch policemen's helmets, which is how he first met Pop Bassett.Chapter 9, years before, Boat Race Night
  32. Stiffy followed Gussie to the kitchen and saw the cook feeding him cold steak and kidney pie.Chapter 9, an hour before
  33. Madeline once broke with Gussie because he got tight presenting the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School.Chapter 9, before
  34. Aunt Dahlia has repeatedly blackmailed Bertie by threatening to bar him from Anatole's cooking.Chapter 9, often before
  35. Bertie pictures Plank as a gnarled labourer whose sailor son brought the statuette home, only for Sir Watkyn to swindle them.Chapter 10, imagined
  36. Plank shows his school football photograph, with Scrubby Willoughby who never learned the reverse pass and Smiler Todd the prop forward.Chapter 10, at school
  37. Plank was stationed in West Africa, where his attempts to teach the natives Rugger caused deaths and blood feuds.Chapter 10, years before
  38. Stiffy appealed to Sir Watkyn, who chuckled and confided that he had paid Plank a thousand pounds, not five, for the statuette.Chapter 11, shortly after luncheon that day
  39. Bertie recalls standing in the dock before magistrate Bassett and thinking he had a shifty eye.Chapter 11, years before
  40. Madeline recalls Gussie scoffing at elves' bridal veils in the mist and saying the Blessed Damozel made him sick.Chapter 12, at Brinkley, weeks before
  41. Aunt Agatha once made Uncle Percy a vegetarian and his whole nature soured.Chapter 12, years before
  42. Stinker Pinker was kicked in the stomach by a costermonger while spreading the light in Bethnal Green.Chapter 12, Stinker's last days at Oxford
  43. Pongo Twistleton once had to put his head in a sack and be prodded with sticks by children at a school treat in Somersetshire.Chapter 13, some time before
  44. Bertie recalls first seeing Pop Bassett on the bench at Bosher Street, where a woman threw her boot at him and hit the clerk.Chapter 13, years before
  45. Bartholomew bit Gussie to the bone, and Emerald Stoker bathed and bandaged his leg.Chapter 14, at the school treat that afternoon
  46. Bertie recalls being rammed in the midriff by an Italian kid on roller skates in Washington Square.Chapter 15, on a visit to New York
  47. Sir Watkyn was so appalled on being introduced to Gussie as his future son-in-law that he sat in a corner refusing to speak.Chapter 16, when Gussie got engaged to Madeline
  48. Sportsmen Aunt Dahlia rebuked for riding over hounds went about in a stupor for months.Chapter 16, in Aunt Dahlia's hunting days
  49. Aunt Agatha has gone on calling Bertie names long after breath should have given out.Chapter 16, in the past
  50. Aunt Agatha's son Thos nearly got sacked from school for breaking out at night to shy for coconuts, and only by oversight was Bertie not blamed.Chapter 17, a year or two before
  51. Thanks to his Scripture Knowledge prize Bertie recalls the manna falling on the children of Israel in the desert.Chapter 17, at school
  52. Aunt Dahlia once instigated the theft of the cow-creamer, holding that collectors pinching from collectors isn't stealing.Chapter 17, before
  53. Spode used to be a Dictator leading a mob of black-shorted followers shouting 'Heil, Spode!'.Chapter 18, before he became Lord Sidcup
  54. Bertie recalls seeing Spode knocked down by Stinker Pinker and laid out by Emerald Stoker's basin of beans.Chapter 18, earlier that day
  55. Plank was stabbed in the calf by a mother after judging a bonny-baby competition.Chapter 20, years before, in Peru
  56. Plank recalls dining with native chiefs whose main dish might be a wife's relation.Chapter 20, years before, in West Africa
  57. Plank recalls Johnny Byng, who came on an expedition with him and was bitten by a puma.Chapter 20, years before
  58. Plank once hitch-hiked from Johannesburg to Cape Town to avoid getting married.Chapter 20, years before
  59. Jeeves tells how he met a despondent Stiffy, learned at the Hockley post office that the vicar was retiring, and put Plank in touch with Stinker.Chapter 21, earlier
  60. Bertie recalls Stiffy landing him with Constable Oates's helmet and his speculating on what her children by Pinker would be like.Chapter 22, previous visit to Totleigh Towers
  61. The umbrella episode in the Brompton Road antique shop, which Bertie insists was a misunderstanding.Chapter 22, Bertie's first meeting with Spode and Sir Watkyn
  62. Bertie recalls Jeeves coughing the same disapproving cough at his Alpine hat.Chapter 23, when Jeeves first saw the Alpine hat
  63. Sir Watkyn regrets only fining Bertie five pounds for stealing a policeman's helmet.Chapter 23, years before
  64. Plank tells of a servant who stole his cigars and false teeth and sold the teeth to a native chief.Chapter 23, years before, in Mozambique
  65. Bertie recalls how hard it was to make conversation on the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn's Sunday walks.Chapter 24, at school
  66. Pop Bassett locked Bertie in his room and posted Oates on the lawn in the rain, giving him a bad cold.Chapter 24, on Bertie's earlier visit to Totleigh Towers
  67. Bertie compares the cell with the one he had at Bosher Street.Chapter 24, years before
Much Obliged, Jeeves 58 memories
  1. Aunt Agatha's past fury over the twenty-three cats in Bertie's bedroom and the marooning of A. B. Filmer on her island.Chapter 1, some years before
  2. When Jeeves left over the banjolele, the agency's replacement Bingley got drunk, set the house on fire and chased Bertie with a carving knife.Chapter 1, some years before
  3. Aunt Dahlia acquired her hog-caller's voice hunting with the Quorn and the Pytchley.Chapter 2, in her youth
  4. Bertie and Ginger became like brothers at Oxford, until Ginger resigned from the Drones and moved to Steeple Bumpleigh at the bidding of a strong-minded fiancée.Chapter 3, years before
  5. Bertie recalls chafing under his engagement to the bossy Florence Craye, who dropped him for Percy Gorringe.Chapter 3, some time before
  6. Ginger, who looks like Esmond Haddock of Deverill Hall, boxed heavyweight for Oxford for three years.Chapter 3, undergraduate days
  7. Bertie and A. B. Filmer were chased on to the roof of a summerhouse by an angry swan on the island at Steeple Bumpleigh.Chapter 3, some time before
  8. Florence's string of engagements, and the flop of Gorringe's stage version of her novel Spindrift at the Duke of York's.Chapter 3, recently
  9. Stinker Pinker's similar diffidence when nerving himself to invite Bertie to Totleigh Towers.Chapter 3, some time before
  10. Florence once chucked a gentleman jockey for falling at the canal turn in the Grand National.Chapter 3, long before
  11. Bertie recalls his own engagement to Florence and her looks at the time she was engaged to Stilton.Chapter 4, before
  12. Bertie won a prize for Scripture Knowledge and found the military chap who said 'Come', his picture of Florence.Chapter 4, at private school
  13. Jeeves has often got Bertie out of entanglements with women, though they never bandy their names.Chapter 4, over the years
  14. Florence dropped Percy Gorringe because the play he made of her novel ran only three nights.Chapter 4, before
  15. Bingley, once Bertie's gloomy revolutionary valet, turned Conservative when an uncle left him a house and money.Chapter 4, years before
  16. Bertie explains who Spode is and their long mutual loathing since Totleigh Towers.Chapter 5, years before
  17. Spode tells how Bertie was seen sneaking off with Sir Watkyn's umbrella in an antique shop.Chapter 5, years before
  18. Bertie explains he took the umbrella absent-mindedly, having come out without his own.Chapter 5, years before
  19. Spode tells how Bertie came to Totleigh at Madeline's invitation and stole the cow-creamer.Chapter 5, years before
  20. Spode tells of Bertie's second Totleigh visit, the amber statuette, and the night in gaol before Sir Watkyn let him off.Chapter 5, years before
  21. Bertie compares the vulture-like Aunt Agatha with the jovial Aunt Dahlia.Chapter 6, always
  22. Ginger used to be thrown out of restaurants for throwing eggs at the fan and jugged on Boat Race night for pinching policemen's helmets.Chapter 6, before Ginger met Florence
  23. Tuppy once looped back the last ring over the Drones swimming bath, dropping Bertie into the water in evening dress.Chapter 6, years before
  24. Tuppy's father invented Runkle's Magic Midgets, but Runkle kept the fortune under the terms of his contract.Chapter 6, years before
  25. Bertie wrote 'What The Well-Dressed Man Is Wearing' for Aunt Dahlia's Milady's Boudoir and sold it outright for a packet of cigarettes.Chapter 6, some years before
  26. Tuppy once bet Bertie he couldn't swing across the Drones swimming-bath by the rings, and looped back the last ring.Chapter 7, years before
  27. Madeline was once engaged to Gussie Fink-Nottle, when the danger of her switching to Bertie was ever present.Chapter 7, before
  28. Hiding behind a sofa, Bertie heard Madeline tell Sir Watkyn his stealing was an illness, and Sir Watkyn retort about his helping himself.Chapter 7, at Totleigh, before
  29. Bertie and Gussie once agreed on the technique of removing things from eyes after Gussie took a fly from Stephanie Byng's.Chapter 7, at Totleigh, before
  30. Bertie recalls studying the Parable of the Talents for the Scripture Knowledge prize he won.Chapter 8, at school
  31. Bertie remembers his nerves before the Choir Boys Bicycle Handicap at his clergyman uncle's place in Kent.Chapter 8, in Bertie's younger days
  32. Bertie once chatted with the maid about the cat Augustus's habit of sleeping instead of catching mice.Chapter 8, on Bertie's last visit to Aunt Dahlia's
  33. Bertie's story came from Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright and is unfit for female ears.Chapter 8, earlier, at the Drones
  34. Bertie recalls that Bingley set cottages on fire and chased him with a carving knife.Chapter 8, before
  35. Bertie's father won a packet on a Grand National outsider called Wilberforce and insisted on giving Bertie the name.Chapter 9, the day before Bertie's christening
  36. Madeline broke with Gussie when he said sunsets and the Blessed Damozel made him sick.Chapter 9, years before
  37. Bingley, valeting Bertie after the banjolele split with Jeeves, got tight and burned down the Chufnell Regis cottage and the banjolele.Chapter 9, years before
  38. Spode was once a Dictator leading a band of supporters in footer shorts shouting 'Heil Spode'.Chapter 9, years before
  39. Bertie recalls encores for singing 'The Yeoman's Wedding Song' at village concerts.Chapter 9, in the past
  40. Florence has jilted Percy Gorringe and dozens of other fiancés who failed her standards.Chapter 9, before
  41. Bertie recalls the deaf adder he read about when winning his Scripture Knowledge prize.Chapter 10, at school
  42. Ginger was jailed every Boat Race and Rugger night for pinching policemen's helmets.Chapter 10, university days
  43. Bertie had repeatedly warned Jeeves that the club book might fall into the wrong hands.Chapter 10, before
  44. Bingley's uncle owned a chain of shops and left him his money; Bertie suspects poison and a forged will.Chapter 11, before
  45. Bertie recalls hesitating at headmaster Arnold Abney's study door, dreading a caning.Chapter 11, at school
  46. Bingley blames Bertie's drinking for the cottage fire at Chuffnell Regis that Bingley himself started.Chapter 11, at Chuffnell Regis, years before
  47. Bingley tells how he slipped the club book into his briefcase while the Junior Ganymede secretary was at lunch.Chapter 11, days before
  48. Jeeves explains how he drugged Bingley's drink and found the book in a drawer of the desk.Chapter 11, an hour before
  49. Aunt Agatha once made Bertie take Thos to Hamlet at the Old Vic.Chapter 12, years before
  50. Runkle used the small print in a contract to rob Tuppy's father of the proceeds of his invention.Chapter 12, years before
  51. Bingley once worked for Runkle for several months, including a trip to America.Chapter 12, some years before
  52. After his encounter with Mrs McCorkadale, Bertie gave up canvassing for Ginger, who took it well.Chapter 12, days before
  53. Bertie recalls singing like a relieved nightingale when Florence broke off her engagement to him.Chapter 13, years before
  54. Bertie recalls Florence ticking him off in front of seventeen Girl Guides.Chapter 13, years before
  55. Bertie recalls Aunt Dahlia explaining that Runkle came to sell Uncle Tom a silver piece and was kept on to be softened up with Anatole's cooking.Chapter 15, the day Bertie arrived
  56. Arnold Abney M.A. used to drum the difference between right and wrong into his pupils.Chapter 15, at private school
  57. Bertie recalls Mrs Homer Cream finding him on the Blue Room floor with a chair round his neck.Chapter 15, on an earlier visit
  58. Uncle Tom loves food but cannot digest it, and only Anatole can feed him without upsetting his gastric juices.Chapter 16, long-standing
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 50 memories
  1. Bertie met Vanessa Cook at a cocktail party, proposed, was turned down, and now thanks his guardian angel.Chapter 2, some time before
  2. Orlo Porter was on Bertie's staircase at Oxford, made fiery left-wing speeches at the Union, watched birds, and now sells insurance, having already sold Bertie a policy.Chapter 2, at Oxford and since
  3. Bertie cites red-headed Queen Elizabeth and what she did to Mary Queen of Scots.Chapter 2, history
  4. Plank tells how he shot the chief of the 'Mgombis and changed his name to George Bernard Shaw to escape the chief's relatives.Chapter 3, years before
  5. Bertie contrasts good Aunt Dahlia, a former hunting woman with a French cook, with werewolf Aunt Agatha.Chapter 3, background
  6. Uncle Tom collects old silver and talks one's head off about sconces and gadroon borders.Chapter 3, habitually
  7. Plank accused Bertie of chiselling him out of five quid, and Jeeves rescued him by posing as Inspector Witherspoon arresting the crook Alpine Joe.Chapter 3, some time before
  8. Bertie was chased a mile across country by an uncle with a hunting crop for smoking his cigar.Chapter 4, in boyhood
  9. Plank tells of a United Explorers man who changed his name from Buggins to Westmacote-Trevelyan and was promptly torn apart by a lion.Chapter 4, years before
  10. Plank once proposed to detain Bertie with his Zulu knob-kerrie.Chapter 4, at their earlier meeting
  11. Vanessa went to study Art at the Slade, fell in with the wrong crowd and was pinched, so Cook brought her home in disgrace.Chapter 4, recently
  12. Bertie recalls betting heavily on Marlene Cooper in the egg and spoon race at Aunt Dahlia's, only for her to break training on unripe gooseberries.Chapter 5, years before
  13. Bertie's nurse told him One was always beside him spying out his ways, and he'd hear about uneaten spinach on Judgment Day.Chapter 6, in childhood
  14. Spode, now Lord Sidcup, often threatened to disembowel Bertie, thinking he was after Madeline Bassett.Chapter 7, before
  15. Bertie recalls winning a Scripture Knowledge prize and writing a piece on What The Well-Dressed Man Is Wearing for Milady's Boudoir.Chapter 7, at school; years before
  16. At the protest march Orlo knocked down a policeman and Bertie drove him away to safety in his car.Chapter 7, recently, in London
  17. Orlo tells how he put P. B. Spofforth in hospital for kissing Vanessa at the Slade Social and Outing Club picnic.Chapter 8, before
  18. Bertie let Orlo talk him into an accident policy and a life policy for huge sums.Chapter 9, earlier
  19. Bertie recalls Balaam's ass from the paper in which he won the Scripture Knowledge prize.Chapter 9, at private school
  20. Bertie has suffered from scheming girls like Stiffy Byng and grown wary.Chapter 9, in the past
  21. Bertie recalls how firmly Vanessa had turned down his proposal.Chapter 10, earlier
  22. Aunt Dahlia was talked by Jimmy into betting more than she possesses on Simla, only to find Potato Chip just as good.Chapter 11, since arriving at Eggesford Hall
  23. A minion of Cook's got the jockey of Jimmy's horse Poonah drunk on the eve of a race at Bridmouth; relations soured only when Jimmy fined Cook for moving pigs.Chapter 11, a couple of years before
  24. Aunt Dahlia sang 'Every Nice Girl Loves A Sailor' in a sailor suit at the village concert and got three encores.Chapter 11, last year
  25. Bertie recalls Aunt Agatha making him take Thos to Macbeth at the Old Vic, and likens himself to Macbeth seeing Banquo's ghost.Chapter 12, years before
  26. Bertie recalls that his first meeting with Plank ended with Plank proposing to hit him with a Zulu knob-kerrie.Chapter 12, earlier, at Totleigh
  27. Plank remembers Jimpy Murgatroyd as Haileybury's star wing three-quarter.Chapter 12, at school
  28. Bertie deduces that Angelica paid Graham ten pounds, borrowed from Aunt Dahlia, to steal the cat.Chapter 12, days before
  29. Bertie recalls answering a question on the deaf adder when he won the Scripture Knowledge prize.Chapter 13, at private school
  30. Aunt Dahlia recalls saving baby Bertie from swallowing his comforter, playing tiddlywinks with him through measles and sending food parcels to his school.Chapter 13, Bertie's childhood
  31. Bertie tells how Plank heard the cat yowl and was told it was Jeeves imitating cats.Chapter 13, earlier that day
  32. Bertie proposed to Vanessa a year ago and was refused, until she changed her mind today.Chapter 13, a year before
  33. Jeeves confiscated a cosh Bonzo had bought to use on a schoolmate.Chapter 14, some months before
  34. Jeeves said melancholy had marked Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright for her own when his horse was disqualified.Chapter 14, some time before
  35. Bertie recalls Gussie Fink-Nottle bringing an ancestral portrait down on Spode's head and Bertie wrapping Spode in a bedsheet.Chapter 15, years before, at Brinkley Court
  36. Orlo recalls Vanessa breaking their engagement and calling him a lily-livered poltroon because he would not go back and demand his money from Cook.Chapter 16, before
  37. Aunt Dahlia told the vicar to back Simla to pay for his church organ, and he told his brother Jimmy, who blew his top.Chapter 16, earlier that day
  38. Aunt Dahlia cites a Wooster at the Crusades who fell off his horse and one who was Wellington's best spy in the Peninsular War.Chapter 16, centuries before
  39. Bertie recalls the story of the man whose dog Diamond chewed up his manuscript.Chapter 17, in Bertie's childhood
  40. The stable man's voice reminds Bertie of the drill Sergeant-Major at the school where he won the Scripture Knowledge prize.Chapter 17, at private school
  41. Tuppy Glossop once bet Bertie he couldn't swing across the Drones pool by the rings and looped back the last one, dropping him in in evening dress.Chapter 17, some time before
  42. Orlo tells how he found Cook after dinner in the library with Major Plank and was refused a penny.Chapter 17, earlier that evening
  43. Orlo tells how Vanessa, hearing he had thumped Cook's table demanding his money, repented and flung herself into his arms.Chapter 18, the night before
  44. Bertie recalls writing 'What The Well-Dressed Man Is Wearing' for Aunt Dahlia's Milady's Boudoir.Chapter 18, years before
  45. Bertie recalls reading of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego when he won the Scripture Knowledge prize.Chapter 18, at private school
  46. Plank recalls Abercrombie-Smith, who brazened things out until eaten by a crocodile on the Lower Zambesi.Chapter 19, years before, in East Africa
  47. Plank recalls 'Inspector Witherspoon' arresting Alpine Joe at his house for trying to get five pounds out of him.Chapter 19, earlier, in Gloucestershire
  48. Uncle Tom used to write to Bertie enclosing a postal order for five or ten bob.Chapter 20, when Bertie was at private school
  49. The Bridmouth Argus critic raved over Aunt Dahlia singing 'Every Nice Girl Loves A Sailor' in a sailor suit at the village concert.Chapter 20, earlier in Maiden Eggesford
  50. Bertie was himself once hit by a champagne cork during some revelry at the Drones.Chapter 20, once, at the Drones