
Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Mike by P.G. Wodehouse Mike and Psmith. If Mike had been in time for breakfast that fatal Easter morning he might have gathered from the expression on his father's face, as Mr. Jackson opened the envelope containing his school report and read the contents, that the document in question was not exactly a paean of praise from beginning to end. But he was late, as usual. Mike always was late for breakfast in the holidays. When he came down on this particular morning, the meal was nearly over. Mr. Jackson had disappeared, taking his correspondence with him; Mrs. Jackson had gone into the kitchen, and when Mike appeared the thing had resolved itself into a mere vulgar brawl between Phyllis and Ella for the jam, while Marjory, recently affecting a grown-up air, looked on in a detached sort of way, as if these juvenile gambols distressed her. "Hello, Mike," she said, jumping up as he entered, "here you are—I've been keeping everything hot for you." "Have you? Thanks awfully. I say …" His eye wandered in mild surprise round the table. "I'm a bit late." Marjory was bustling about, fetching and carrying for Mike, as she always did. She had adopted him at an early age, and did the thing thoroughly. She was fond of her other brothers, especially when they made centuries in first-class cricket, but Mike was her favorite. She would field out in the deep as a natural thing when Mike was batting at the net in the paddock, though for the others, even for Joe, who had played in all five Test Matches in the previous summer, she would do it only as a favor. Phyllis and Ella finished their dispute and went out. Marjory sat on the table and watched Mike eat. Mike (Wodehouse) First published September, 1909. Reprinted in 1910, 1916, and 1919. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BILLING AND SONS, LTD., GUILDFORD. "ARE YOU THE M. JACKSON, THEN, WHO HAD AN AVERAGE OF FIFTY-ONE POINT NOUGHT THREE LAST YEAR?" p. 225. CHAP. PAGE I. MIKE 1 II. THE JOURNEY DOWN 7 III. MIKE FINDS A FRIENDLY NATIVE 13 IV. AT THE NETS 19 V. REVELRY BY NIGHT 24 VI. IN WHICH A TIGHT CORNER IS EVADED 32 VII. IN WHICH MIKE IS DISCUSSED 37 VIII. A ROW WITH THE TOWN 43 IX. BEFORE THE STORM 50 X. THE GREAT PICNIC 56 XI. THE CONCLUSION OF THE PICNIC 61 XII. MIKE GETS HIS CHANCE 66 XIII. THE M.C.C. MATCH 72 XIV. A SLIGHT IMBROGLIO 80 XV. MIKE CREATES A VACANCY 85 XVI. AN EXPERT EXAMINATION 91 XVII. ANOTHER VACANCY 97 XVIII. BOB HAS NEWS TO IMPART 102 XIX. MIKE GOES TO SLEEP AGAIN 107 XX. THE TEAM IS FILLED UP 113 XXI. MARJORY THE FRANK 118 XXII. WYATT IS REMINDED OF AN ENGAGEMENT 125 XXIII. A SURPRISE FOR MR. APPLEBY 130 XXIV. CAUGHT 135 XXV. MARCHING ORDERS 140 XXVI. THE AFTERMATH 144 XXVII. THE RIPTON MATCH 149 XXVIII. MIKE WINS HOME 155 XXIX. WYATT AGAIN 166 XXX. MR. JACKSON MAKES UP HIS MIND 169 XXXI. SEDLEIGH 174 XXXII. PSMITH 179 XXXIII. STAKING OUT A CLAIM 183 XXXIV. GUERILLA WARFARE 189 XXXV. UNPLEASANTNESS IN THE SMALL HOURS 196 XXXVI. ADAIR 202 XXXVII. MIKE FINDS OCCUPATION 207 XXXVIII. THE FIRE BRIGADE MEETING 213 XXXIX. ACHILLES LEAVES HIS TENT 220 XL. THE MATCH WITH DOWNING'S 225 XLI. THE SINGULAR BEHAVIOUR OF JELLICOE 234 XLII. JELLICOE GOES ON THE SICK-LIST 239 XLIII. MIKE RECEIVES A COMMISSION 243 XLIV. AND FULFILS IT 248 XLV. PURSUIT 253 XLVI. THE DECORATION OF SAMMY 260 XLVII. MR. DOWNING ON THE SCENT 263 XLVIII. THE SLEUTH-HOUND 269 XLIX. A CHECK 275 L. THE DESTROYER OF EVIDENCE 281 LI. MAINLY ABOUT BOOTS 287 LII. ON THE TRAIL AGAIN 294 LIII. THE KETTLE METHOD 297 LIV. ADAIR HAS A WORD WITH MIKE 303 LV. CLEARING THE AIR 308 LVI. IN WHICH PEACE IS DECLARED 314 LVII. MR. DOWNING MOVES 319 LVIII. THE ARTIST CLAIMS HIS WORK 326 LIX. SEDLEIGH v. WRYKYN 334 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. BY T. M. R. WHITWELL. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1926. The author died in 1975, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 30 years or less . This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. Mike by P.G. Wodehouse. 4.0 — 1 ratings — 0 reviews. subjects: Humorous Fiction. series: Psmith (#1), School Stories (#7) Register for a free account. All our eBooks are FREE to download! sign in or create a new account. EPUB 870 KB. Kindle 970 KB. $2.99. Support epubBooks by making a small PayPal donation purchase . Description. Michael “Mike” Jackson is the youngest son of a renowned cricketing family. Mike’s eldest brother Joe is a successful first-class player, while another brother, Bob, is on the verge of his school team. When Mike arrives at Wrykyn himself, his cricketing talent and love of adventure bring him success and trouble in equal measure. In the second part, also known as Enter Psmith or Mike and Psmith, takes place two years later. Mike, due to take over as cricket captain at Wrykyn, is withdrawn from the school by his father and sent to a lesser school, called Sedleigh. On arrival at Sedleigh, he meets the eccentric Rupert Psmith, another new arrival from the superior school of Eton. Becoming fast friends, the two eschew cricket and indulge in all manner of high-jinks and adventures. (source: Wikipedia) 457 pages, with a reading time of. 7.0 hours (114,250 words) , and first published in 1909. This DRM-Free edition published by epubBooks , 2009 . Community Reviews. Your Review. Sign up or Log in to rate this book and submit a review. There are currently no other reviews for this book. Excerpt. It was a morning in the middle of April, and the Jackson family were consequently breakfasting in comparative silence. The cricket season had not begun, and except during the cricket season they were in the habit of devoting their powerful minds at breakfast almost exclusively to the task of victualling against the labours of the day. In May, June, July, and August the silence was broken. The three grown–up Jacksons played regularly in first–class cricket, and there was always keen competition among their brothers and sisters for the copy of the Sportsman which was to be found on the hall table with the letters. Whoever got it usually gloated over it in silence till urged wrathfully by the multitude to let them know what had happened; when it would appear that Joe had notched his seventh century, or that Reggie had been run out when he was just getting set, or, as sometimes occurred, that that ass Frank had dropped Fry or Hayward in the slips before he had scored, with the result that the spared expert had made a couple of hundred and was still going strong. In such a case the criticisms of the family circle, particularly of the smaller Jackson sisters, were so breezy and unrestrained that Mrs. Jackson generally felt it necessary to apply the closure. Indeed, Marjory Jackson, aged fourteen, had on three several occasions been fined pudding at lunch for her caustic comments on the batting of her brother Reggie in important fixtures. Cricket was a tradition in the family, and the ladies, unable to their sorrow to play the game themselves, were resolved that it should not be their fault if the standard was not kept up. On this particular morning silence reigned. A deep gasp from some small Jackson, wrestling with bread–and–milk, and an occasional remark from Mr. Jackson on the letters he was reading, alone broke it. List of books by P. G. Wodehouse. The following is a complete list of books by P. G. Wodehouse , including novels and collections of short stories, sorted first by date of publication and later by "series" – i.e. by recurring characters or locations. Wodehouse's work has been anthologized, recompiled, and republished under a great many titles; only the titles as originally published are listed here. Many of Wodehouse's short stories appeared first in magazines and were later published in collections, some of which include tales from several of his canons: Lord Emsworth and Others , for example, contains stories about Blandings Castle, the Oldest Member, Mr Mulliner, and Freddie Widgeon. As a consequence, precise classification of his works into one series or another is impossible; some of the compilations below overlap between series, causing several books to be listed more than once. Contents. Chronological list [ edit | edit source ] UK title and date of publication. List by series [ edit | edit source ] Blandings Castle [ edit | edit source ] The upper-class inhabitants of the fictional Blandings Castle, including the eccentric Lord Emsworth, obsessed by his prize-winning pig, the "Empress of Blandings", are the subject of eleven novels and nine short stories, written between 1915 and Wodehouse's death in 1975. Something Fresh (1915) (U.S. title: Something New ) Leave it to Psmith (1923) Summer Lightning (1929) (U.S. title: Fish Preferred ) Heavy Weather (1933) Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935) – Twelve short stories, six of which are about Blandings; written from 1926 to 1928, they occur before the events of Summer Lightning . Lord Emsworth and Others (1937) – Despite its title, only one of the nine short stories, "The Crime Wave at Blandings", concerns Lord Emsworth (U.S.
Details
-
File Typepdf
-
Upload Time-
-
Content LanguagesEnglish
-
Upload UserAnonymous/Not logged-in
-
File Pages6 Page
-
File Size-