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The Ordeal of Bingo Little

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Mike Schilling

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Jun 28, 2006, 11:02:48 AM6/28/06
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Has anyone read "The Ordeal of Bingo Little"? It's never been reprnted,
according the _Who's Who in Wodehouse_, and as far as I can tell it's the
only Bingo story missing from _Tales of the Drones Club_.


charles Stone-Tolcher

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Jun 28, 2006, 4:47:26 PM6/28/06
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I do have this story, it appeared in Bluebook magazine, Vol 99, No 1, May
1954. The story appears, with a few minor alterations, in "Tales From The
Drone's Club" under the title of "Leave it to Algy".

Pillingshot

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Mike Schilling

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Jun 28, 2006, 5:24:50 PM6/28/06
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> "Mike Schilling" <mscotts...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:sSwog.56218$fb2...@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...
>> Has anyone read "The Ordeal of Bingo Little"? It's never been reprnted,
>> according the _Who's Who in Wodehouse_, and as far as I can tell it's the
>> only Bingo story missing from _Tales of the Drones Club_.
>>
>>

>I do have this story, it appeared in Bluebook magazine, Vol 99, No 1, May


> 1954. The story appears, with a few minor alterations, in "Tales From The
> Drone's Club" under the title of "Leave it to Algy".

Aha. The RussianWodehouse Society's page makes these look like different
stories, both published in Bluebook in 1954. What you say makes for more
sense.

http://wodehouse.ru/bibssty.htm

So apparently, it has had three titles:

The Ordeal of Bingo Little -- U.S. magazine
Hats off to Algernon -- U.S. book
Leave it to Algy -- UK book and magazine


Ian Michaud, TWS

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Jun 29, 2006, 1:07:20 AM6/29/06
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Mike Schilling wrote:

One of the reasons "The Ordeal of Bingo Little" didn't appear in book
form was that Wodehouse lifted a key scene from the story for later use
in a Bertie-and-Jeeves novel.

In the short story Rosie was away and Bingo was in desperate need of ten
pounds and applied to Oofy for a loan. Oofy wanted to dump a girl he
was going out with and gave Bingo the tenner to take his, Oofy's, place
on a date he had with the girl that night.

Bingo and the girl eventually wound up the evening in a sleazy night
club which was raided by the police. The girl panicked and legged it so
the chivalrous Bingo stuck out his leg to trip the pursuing constable.
After spending the night in jail, Bingo appeared in court the next
morning (under the name "Ephraim Gadsby") and the magistrate fined him
ten pounds, leaving our hero back in the financial glue again.

Sound familiar?

The Mixer

charles Stone-Tolcher

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Jun 29, 2006, 4:36:08 PM6/29/06
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Mixer, you chump; we are talking about "Ordeal of Bingo Little", not the
1940 version of "A Word in Season" as it first appeared in Punch. Not the
same thing at all.

Pillingshot

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