Jeeves And The Feudal Spirit by P. G. Wodehouse

Author:P. G. Wodehouse
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I don’t know if you happen to be familiar with a poem called ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by the bird Tennyson whom Jeeves had mentioned when speaking of the fellow whose strength was as the strength of ten. It is, I believe, fairly well known, and I used to have to recite it at the age of seven or thereabouts when summoned to the drawing-room to give visitors a glimpse of the young Wooster. ‘Bertie recites so nicely,’ my mother used to say—getting her facts twisted, I may mention, because I practically always fluffed my lines—and after trying to duck for safety and being hauled back I would snap into it. And very unpleasant the whole thing was, so people have told me.

Well, what I was about to say, when I rambled off a bit on the subject of the dear old days, was that though in the course of the years most of the poem of which I speak has slid from the memory, I still recall its punch line. The thing goes, as you probably know,

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