bantam weight *A weight class of boxers recognized since 1894; current upper limit is 118 pounds, lighter than lightweights and featherweights. These smaller boxers would be agile, hence the comparison here to Florence’s side-stepping. And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? The rummy business Betie needs rescue from involves his fiancee Florence Craye, ‘a girl with a wonderful profile, but steeped to the gills in serious purpose’ , her uncle Willoughby who has just finished writing down the scandalous account of his youth as a rake and the inquisitive Edwin the Boyscout whose good deeds are the bane of Bertie’s existence. The setting is the usual posh country manor in Shropshire. Revised versions of all the Jeeves stories in this collection were later published in the 1925 short story collection Carry On, Jeeves. One of the Reggie Pepper stories in this collection was later rewritten as a Jeeves story, which was also included in Carry On, Jeeves.

Wodehouse is so consistently against facial hair in his fiction, that we must assume this to be a personal prejudice of his. Bertie also grows a moustache in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954), where it proves to have the disadvantage of making him irresistible to Florence Craye. The most famous moustache story is of course “Buried Treasure” in Lord Emsworth and Others. Clive Exton adapted the stories into a television series staring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, as Jeeves and Wooster. It aired on ITV from 1990 to 1993.Bertie has got the metre and the storyline right, but there is no line in the poem that starts “I slew him....” Elsewhere, Bertie often quotes the final stanza: The English philologist Eugene Aram (1704–59) was a self-taught expert on the Celtic languages. Before he could complete his Anglo-Celtic dictionary, he was tried and executed for the murder of his friend Daniel Clarke. As well as Thomas Hood’s poem, which Bertie attempts to quote, there is a novel by Bulwer Lytton on the subject. Hood’s poem was effectively sabotaged by Lewis Carroll’s parody “The Walrus and the Carpenter.”

However, Elizabeth, on her way to the beach, spots the child and approaches. She offers him sweets, and the child shouts, "Kiss Fweddie!". Freddie comes out and, not knowing Bertie's scheme, fails to say anything. The child continues to shout, until Bertie, defeated, tells Elizabeth she must give the child the sweets. Bertie confesses the plan, and Elizabeth laughs. Bertie sidles away and meets Jeeves, who is just returning from a walk. He tells Jeeves that the plan is over, but is startled when he sees a crowd gathering in front of the cottage. On the porch, Freddie and Elizabeth are embracing. Jeeves observes that things have ended well after all. Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.In ‘ Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest’, Bertie & Jeeves are in New York. Lady Malvern a friend of Bertie’s Aunt Agatha entrusts Bertie with the safe keeping of her son Lord Pershore a.k.a Motty for a few weeks while she is exploring the country. Bertie has no choice but to agree and soon finds that given freedom for first time in his life the seemingly docile Motty plunges right into the nightlife charms of the city. Now it is for Jeeves to save Bertie from the wrath of his Aunt’s friend by stopping the drunken decadence of Motty, which leads to more merriment. Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England 1558–1603. The ruff suggests her as the more likely of the two. Also the title of a 1922 film starring Cullen Landis as a young man who leaves home and sweetheart and becomes involved with a cynical chorus girl. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher, author of The World as Will and Representation, was noted for his pessimism and misogyny.