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the Alpine hat^✦︎ and Bertie Wooster

• Bertie Wooster buys the Alpine hat chapter 1
• Bertie Wooster insists on wearing the Alpine hat chapters 1, 2, 7
• Bertie Wooster differs with Jeeves over the Alpine hat chapter 4
• Bertie Wooster gives up the Alpine hat chapter 24

They deal with each other in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1, 2, 4, 7, 24.

Scenes they share

1. Aunt Dahlia phones to explain she invited Bassett to take Uncle Tom's mind off taxes, mentions the black amber statuette and invites herself to lunch, and Bertie defies Jeeves by wearing his new Alpine hat to the Ritz.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
2. Plank, a Rugger-mad explorer, takes Bertie for a Daily Express reporter, and when Bertie produces the statuette and asks for five pounds he threatens to call the police, just as Jeeves comes in through the french window.Chapters 10–11, Plank's house
3. Freed, Bertie refuses Stiffy's plan to get even with Oates, then learns from Jeeves that he won the release by agreeing to work for Sir Watkyn for a while, and gives up his Alpine hat to Jeeves, who will pass it on to the courting Butterfield.Chapter 24, Totleigh-in-the-Wold

Every dealing, in order

• Chapter 1Bertie Wooster bought while Jeeves was away the Alpine hat (earlier)
• Chapter 1Bertie Wooster insists on wearing the Alpine hat
• Chapter 2Bertie Wooster insists on wearing the Alpine hat
• Chapter 4Bertie Wooster differed with Jeeves over the Alpine hat (earlier)
• Chapter 7Bertie Wooster wore at lunch with Emerald the Alpine hat (earlier)
• Chapter 24Bertie Wooster gives up the Alpine hat