LitReading - Classic Short Stories and Timeless Tales

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A Slice of Life by P. G. Wodehouse — A Chemist, a Baronet and a Girl Locked Upstairs

A Slice of Life by P. G. Wodehouse — A Chemist, a Baronet and a Girl Locked Upstairs17 sept.36 min

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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