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Uncle Fred in the Springtime

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When Fred reconciles Gilpin and Pongo, another £250 is required. Pott is persuaded to take it from Dunstable at "Persian Monarchs", but the wily peer wins himself £300. Both Fred and Pott try to get it back, but Dunstable has the pig, captured earlier by Baxter, hidden in his bathroom, and is keeping
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during a round of the "Clothes Stakes", run by Pott at the Drones. Pongo's mistaken bet loses all his money, adding to his already large debt. Uncle Fred ponders how to get Polly into Blandings to court her prospective uncle-in-law; Fred thinks the Duke will like her and ignore her background if they
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Dunstable's scheme to acquire the pig continues apace, and he calls in his strapping nephew to help, but when Gilpin asks for funds to buy an onion soup bar, thus enabling him to marry Polly, the two row and part. Dunstable ropes in Baxter instead. Uncle Fred, meeting Pott just after he has won £250
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Valerie arrives, reunited with Horace and hot for vengeance on the uncle that made him think himself insane, and confirms Fred's identity; Fred convinces all that Emsworth has become infatuated with Polly, and that he is there to put a stop to it. He takes Dunstable's roll of cash under the pretext
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Fred heads to Blandings posing as Glossop, with Pongo playing the role of his secretary and nephew, and Polly his daughter Gwendoline. They unexpectedly meet Glossop on the train, who had later been persuaded by Constance to come despite the insult. Fred tells Glossop the Duke is on the train and
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Baxter is sacked by the Duke because he was seen at a ball in London by Horace, but is taken on again when Fred, as Glossop, persuades Horace and the Duke that Horace is suffering delusions. Horace heads off for a rest-cure, and Baxter is left unable to reveal that he has seen through Fred's
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Wodehouse generally uses conservative verbal inflection in his narrative prose and dialogue, but occasionally contrasts this with an informal verbal inflection in conversation, such as when Lord Bosham and Lady Constance discuss the Duke of Dunstable's accident in chapter 12:
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of paying Polly off—insisting that his visit remain a secret from Lady Ickenham to maintain the family dignity—and heads back to London with not only the money for Gilpin's soup bar, but an extra fifty quid for himself to blow on a few joyous weeks in the city.
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Commercial products, patent medicines, and other items often have comical names in Wodehouse's stories. For example, in imitation of the names of swords like Excalibur and Durendal, Lord Ickenham's great bath-sponge is called Joyeuse.
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disguise, having met the real Glossop before. Baxter is put on his guard, and informs Constance; she in turn wants to hire a detective to deal with these imposters. Bosham remembers Mustard Pott, and calls him to Blandings.
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wherever it is available. For example, in chapter 7, Lord Ickenham says: "It is essential that Polly goes to Blandings and there meets and fascinates Dunstable." In American usage, this would be
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is having money troubles, and his wealthy friend Horace Pendlebury-Davenport is in trouble with his fiancée, Pongo's sister Valerie, for hiring Claude "Mustard" Pott to trail her during the
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by calling him a name from their school days, Pimples; Glossop then refuses to come to Blandings to analyse the increasingly loopy Duke of Dunstable, as Emsworth's sister
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Horace, having fallen out with his cousin Ricky Gilpin over Gilpin's fiancée Polly Pott, daughter of Mustard, inadvertently makes trouble for Pongo by being dressed as a
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from Bosham at "Persian Monarchs", takes the money off him, insisting it will help Polly marry wealthy Horace. Pott, meeting Gilpin at
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Glossop can save time by talking with him, and then heading back to London. Fred is not aware that the stranger is
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The novel was adapted as a radio drama by Archie Scottney in 2012 for BBC Radio 4, directed by
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as Uncle Fred. The radio drama first aired in two parts on 22 April and 29 April 2012.
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Scenes from the novel were adapted in the first episode of the second series of the
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television series, "Throwing Eggs", which first aired on 16 February 2014.
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his room under lock and key. Having knocked out the vigilant Baxter with a
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meet in a neutral situation. Emsworth creates an opening by insulting Sir
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McIlvaine, Eileen; Sherby, Louise S.; Heineman, James H. (1990).
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from 22 April to 27 May 1939, illustrated by James Williamson.
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Works originally published in The Saturday Evening Post
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Polly Pott, Ricky's fiancée and Horace's dance-teacher
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Valerie Twistleton, Pongo's sister, engaged to Horace
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George Threepwood, Lord Bosham, Emsworth's eldest son
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It is essential that Polly go, meet, and fascinate.
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Index


P. G. Wodehouse
Comic novel
Doubleday, Doran
Herbert Jenkins
ISBN
978-0-09-951384-1
The Crime Wave at Blandings
Heavy Weather
Full Moon
Uncle Dynamite
P. G. Wodehouse
Doubleday, Doran
Herbert Jenkins
Blandings Castle
Clarence, Earl of Emsworth
Uncle Fred
Uncle Fred Flits By
Young Men in Spats
Pongo Twistleton
Drones Club
Le Touquet
Uncle Fred
Blandings
The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
Lord Emsworth
Empress of Blandings
Galahad
Zulu
Boy Scout

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