My Man Jeeves

My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Wooster. LEAVE IT TO JEEVESJeevesmy man, you knowis really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldnt know what to do without him. On broader lines hes like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements at the Pennsylvania Station in the place marked Inquiries. You know the Johnnies I mean. You go up to them and say: Whens the next train for Melonsquashville, Tennessee? and they reply, without stopping to think, Two-forty-three, track ten, change at San Francisco. And theyre right every time. Well, Jeeves gives you just the same impression of omniscience.As an instance of what I mean, I remember meeting Monty Byng in Bond Street one morning, looking the last word in a grey check suit, and I felt I should never be happy till I had one like it. I dug the address of the tailors out of him, and had them working on the thing inside the hour.Jeeves, I said that evening. Im getting a check suit like that one of Mr. Byngs.Injudicious, sir, he said firmly. It will not become you.What absolute rot! Its the soundest thing Ive struck for years.Unsuitable for you, sir.