We hold on, hair flying, desperate to know who finally does get their hands on the silver cow creamer that Wooster's Aunt Dahlia has asked him to steal. One character eats soup "not unlike the Scottish express going through a tunnel." While some farces tire, this comedy of errors canters. Published in 1938, "The Code of the Woosters" is the third novel featuring the duo, and the pages yodel with Wodehouse's trademark wit. Appearing in 35 of Wodehouse's short stories and 11 of his novels, Jeeves has achieved celebrity through his unfailing ability to devise a cunning plan to get Bertie Wooster, his master and intellectual inferior, out of a jam. If, 98 years after he first appeared, the distinction is lost on many, the character certainly isn't. 1 While Jeeves may have become a byword for a butler, he is, of course, a valet.
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