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🗓️ 15 January 2025
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Bertie helps out an old pal who is trying to extract a bigger allowance from his rich uncle so he can marry a waitress. They turn to Jeeves for a way to talk his uncle into it.
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0:00.0 | The |
0:07.0 | The Welcome back, everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. |
0:33.8 | This is your host, John Haggardorn. |
0:36.1 | I've got another great Jeeves short story for you today. |
0:39.4 | This one is from P.G. Wodehouse's short story collection called The Inimitable Jeeves. |
0:45.3 | And this is chapter one, Jeeves exerts the old cerebellum. And now our story. |
0:52.5 | Morning, Jeeves,' I said. |
0:55.0 | "'Good morning, sir,' said Jeeves. |
0:57.6 | "'He put the good old cup of tea softly on the table by my bed, |
1:01.7 | "'and I took a refreshing sip. |
1:03.6 | "'Just right, as usual. |
1:05.9 | "'Not too hot, not too sweet, not too weak, not too strong, |
1:10.6 | "'not too much milk, and not a drop spilled in the saucer. |
1:14.9 | A most amazing cove, Jeeves. So dashed competent in every respect. I've said it before and I'll say it |
1:22.7 | again. I mean to say, take just one small instance. Every other valet I've ever had used to barge into my room in the morning while I was still |
1:31.4 | asleep, causing much misery. |
1:34.0 | But Jeeves seems to know when I'm awake by a sort of telepathy. |
1:37.4 | He always floats in with the cup exactly two minutes after I come to life. |
1:41.6 | Makes a deuce of a lot of difference to a fellow's day. |
1:45.5 | How's the weather out there, Jeeves? |
1:48.0 | Exceptionally Clement, sir. |
1:50.4 | Anything in the papers? |
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