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Title: The Pothunters
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Release Date: November, 2004 [EBook #6984] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 20, 2003]
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THE POTHUNTERS
by P. G. Wodehouse
1902
[Dedication] TO JOAN, EFFIE AND ERNESTINE BOWES-LYON
Contents
1 Patient Perseverance Produces Pugilistic Prodigies
2 Thieves Break in and Steal
3 An Unimportant By-product
4 Certain Revelations
5 Concerning the Mutual Friend
6 A Literary Banquet
7 Barrett Explores
8 Barrett Ceases to Explore
9 Enter the Sleuth-hound
10 Mr Thompson Investigates
11 The Sports
12 An Interesting Interview
13 Sir Alfred Scores
14 The Long Run
15 Mr Roberts Explains
16 The Disappearance of J. Thomson
17 ‘We’ll Proceed to Search for Thomson if He Be Above the Ground’
18 In Which the Affairs of Various Persons Are Wound Up
[1]
PATIENT PERSEVERANCE PRODUCES PUGILISTIC PRODIGIES
‘Where
‘Hullo, Allen,’ he said, ‘what the dickens are you up here for?’
‘I was rather thinking of doing a little boxing. If you’ve no objection, of course.’
‘But you ought to be on a bed of sickness, and that sort of thing. I heard you’d crocked yourself.’
‘So I did. Nothing much, though. Trod on myself during a game of fives, and twisted my ankle a bit.’
‘In for the middles, of course?’
‘Yes.’
‘So am I.’
‘Yes, so I saw in the Sportsman. It says you weigh eleven-three.’
‘Bit more, really, I believe. Shan’t be able to have any lunch, or I shall have to go in for the heavies. What are you?’
‘Just eleven. Well, let’s hope we meet in the final.’
