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PSMITH IN THE CITY By P. G. Wodehouse



DEDICATION TO LESLIE HAVERGAL BRADSHAW





CONTENTS 1. Mr Bickersdyke Walks behind the Bowler's Arm 2. Mike Hears Bad News 3. The New Era Begins 4. First Steps in a Business Career 5. The Other Man 6. Psmith Explains 7. Going into Winter Quarters 8. The Friendly Native 9. The Haunting of Mr Bickersdyke 10. Mr Bickersdyke Addresses His Constituents 11. Misunderstood 12. In a Nutshell 13. Mike is Moved On 14. Mr Waller Appears in a New Light 15. Stirring Times on the Common 16. Further Developments 17. Sunday Supper 18. Psmith Makes a Discovery 19. The Illness of Edward 20. Concerning a Cheque 21. Psmith Makes Inquiries 22. And Take Steps 23. Mr Bickersdyke Makes a Concession 24. The Spirit of Unrest 25. At the Telephone 26. Breaking The News 27. At Lord's 28. Psmith Arranges his Future 29. And Mike's 30. The Last Sad Farewells







1. Mr Bickersdyke Walks behind the Bowler's Arm

Considering what a prominent figure Mr John Bickersdyke was to be in Mike Jackson's life, it was only appropriate that he should make a dramatic entry into it. This he did by walking behind the bowler's arm +when Mike had scored ninety-eight, causing him thereby to be clean bowled by a long-hop.

It was the last day of the Ilsworth cricket week, and the house team were struggling hard on a damaged wicket. During the first two matches of the week all had been well. Warm sunshine, true wickets, tea in the shade of the trees. But on the Thursday night, as the team champed their dinner contentedly after defeating the Incogniti by two wickets, a pattering of rain made itself heard upon the windows. By bedtime it had settled to a steady downpour. On Friday morning, when the team of the local regiment arrived in their brake, the sun was shining once more in a watery, melancholy way, but play was not possible before lunch. After lunch the bowlers were in their element. The regiment, winning the toss, put together a hundred and thirty, due principally to a last wicket stand between two enormous corporals, who swiped at everything and had luck enough for two whole teams. The house team followed with seventy-eight, of which Psmith, by his usual golf methods, claimed thirty. Mike, who had gone in first as the star bat of the side, had been run out with great promptitude off the first

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