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Title: Mike and Psmith

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Release Date: January 4, 2004 [EBook #10586]
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Language: English

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MIKE AND PSMITH

By P.G. WODEHOUSE

MEREDITH PRESS / NEW YORK

Copyright 1909 by A. & C. Black

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

1. MR. JACKSON MAKES UP HIS MIND
2. SEDLEIGH
3. PSMITH
4. STAKING OUT A CLAIM
5. GUERRILLA WARFARE
6. UNPLEASANTNESS IN THE SMALL HOURS
7. ADAIR
8. MIKE FINDS OCCUPATION
9. THE FIRE BRIGADE MEETING
10. ACHILLES LEAVES HIS TENT
11. THE MATCH WITH DOWNING'S
12. THE SINGULAR BEHAVIOR OF JELLICOE
13. JELLICOE GOES ON THE SICK LIST
14. MIKE RECEIVES A COMMISSION
15. ... AND FULFILLS IT
16. PURSUIT
17. THE DECORATION OF SAMMY
18. MR. DOWNING ON THE SCENT
19. THE SLEUTH-HOUND
20. A CHECK
21. THE DESTROYER OF EVIDENCE
22. MAINLY ABOUT SHOES
23. ON THE TRAIL AGAIN
24. THE ADAIR METHOD
25. ADAIR HAS A WORD WITH MIKE
26. CLEARING THE AIR
27. IN WHICH PEACE IS DECLARED
28. MR. DOWNING MOVES
29. THE ARTIST CLAIMS HIS WORK
30. SEDLEIGH V. WRYKYN

PREFACE

In Evelyn Waugh's book _Decline and Fall_ his hero, applying for a post
as a schoolmaster, is told by the agent, "We class schools in four
grades--leading school, first-rate school, good school, and school."
Sedleigh in Mike and Psmith would, I suppose, come into the last-named
class, though not quite as low in it as Mr. Waugh's Llanabba. It is one
of those small English schools with aspirations one day to be able to
put the word "public" before their name and to have their headmaster
qualified to attend the annual Headmaster's Conference. All it needs is
a few more Adairs to get things going. And there is this to be noted,
that even at a "school" one gets an excellent education. Its only
drawback is that it does not play the leading schools or the first-rate
schools or even the good schools at cricket.