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From: The Spectator
Date: 19971220
Author:Townsend, Juliet

Juliet Townsend

TALES OF WRYKYN AND ELSEWHERE

by P. G. Wodehouse

Porpoise Books, L25, pp. 323

Of all the famous first meetings in fiction, none, not even that of Holmes and Watson, was fraught with more farreaching consequences for its author than the moment when Mike Jackson wanders into the senior day-room at Sedleigh School to find

a very long thin youth leaning against the mantelpiece . . . He fumbled in his top left waistcoat pocket, produced an eyeglass attached to a cord and fixed it in his right eye... `Take a seat', said the immaculate one. `If you don't mind dirtying your bags. ...

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