
← LitReading - Classic Short Stories and Timeless Tales17 sept · 36 min
A Slice of Life by P. G. Wodehouse — A Chemist, a Baronet and a Girl Locked Upstairs
A man in a country pub insists his story is true. It concerns his brother Wilfred, a chemist of some genius, a jolly outdoor girl with a wholesome sunburn, and a Yorkshire baronet who spells his name with four small f's. Somebody is being kept behind a locked door on the second floor. Somebody else is about to regret asking what's true to life.
This is P.G. Wodehouse, 1926, at his most gleefully unreliable.
First published in Liberty, August 7, 1926; collected in Meet Mr. Mulliner, 1927. Read by Don McDonald. HumorUs is part of the Short Storyverses network. shortstoryverses.com
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