Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975 / 2008-07-10 00:00:00
EBOOK TALES OF ST. AUSTIN'S ***
This eBook was produced by Suzanne L. Shell, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
TALES OF ST AUSTIN'S
by P. G. Wodehouse
1903
PREFACE
Most of these stories originally appeared in _The Captain_. I am
indebted to the Editor of that magazine for allowing me to republish.
The rest are from the _Public School Magazine_. The story entitled
'A Shocking Affair' appears in print for the first time. 'This was one
of our failures.'
_P. G. Wodehouse_
[Dedication]
AD MATREM
CONTENTS
1 How Pillingshot Scored
2 The Odd Trick
3 L'Affaire Uncle John (A Story in Letters)
4 Harrison's Slight Error
5 Bradshaw's Little Story
6 A Shocking Affair
7 The Babe and the Dragon
8 The Manoeuvres of Charteris
9 How Payne Bucked Up
10 Author!
11 'The Tabby Terror'
12 The Prize Poem
13 Work
14 Notes
15 Now, Talking About Cricket--
16 The Tom Brown Question
[1]
HOW PILLINGSHOT SCORED
Pillingshot was annoyed. He was disgusted, mortified; no other word for
it. He had no objection, of course, to Mr Mellish saying that his work
during the term, and especially his Livy, had been disgraceful. A
master has the right to say that sort of thing if he likes. It is one
of the perquisites of the position. But when he went on to observe,
without a touch of shame, that there would be an examination in the
Livy as far as they had gone in it on the following Saturday,
Pillingshot felt that he exceeded.
Read more
Parts:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10