How can Jeeves help wrangle Bicky's uncle, the hard boiled egg?

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Today's story is another in the series of PG Woodhouse short stories found in the volume My Man Jeeves. In case you haven't noticed, I'm recording anew all the

stories in this volume. Some we've heard before and some we haven't. So while today's story showed up as a vintage episode a few weeks back,

I hope you won't mind it again, recorded 15 years later. And now, Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Ang, by PG Woodhouse. Sometimes of a morning,

a morning, as I've sat in bed sucking down the early cup of tea and

watched my Nan Jee's flitting about the room and putting out the Raymond for the day, I have wondered what the juice I should

do if the fellow ever took it into his head to leave me. It's not so bad now I'm in New York, but in

London the anxiety was frightful. There used to be all sorts of attempts on the part

of low blighters to sneak him away from me. Young Reggie Fouljambi, my certain knowledge, offered him double what I was giving him, and

Alistair Bingham Reeves, who's got valid who had been known to press his trousers

sideways, used to look at him when he came to see me with a kind of glittering hungry eye which disturbed me ducidly

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