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The Gold Bat

  • P. G. Wodehouse

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From the book:All of which, being interpreted, meant that the first match of the Easter term had just come to an end, and that those of the team who, being day boys, changed over at the pavilion, instead of performing the operation at leisure and in comfort, as did the members of houses, were discussing the vital question - -who was to have first bath? The Field Sports Committee at Wrykyn - -that is, at the school which stood some half-mile outside that town and took its name from it - -were not lavish in their expenditure as regarded the changing accommodation in the pavilion. Letters appeared in every second number of the Wrykinian, some short, others long, some from members of the school, others from Old Boys, all protesting against the condition of the first, second, and third fifteen dressing-rooms. “Indignant” would inquire acidly, in half a page of small type, if the editor happened to be aware that there was no hair-brush in the second room, and only half a comb. “Disgusted O. W.” would remark that when he came down with the Wandering Zephyrs to play against the third fifteen, the water supply had suddenly and mysteriously failed, and the W.Z.’s had been obliged to go home as they were, in a state of primeval grime, and he thought that this was “a very bad thing in a school of over six hundred boys”, though what the number of boys had to do with the fact that there was no water he omitted to explain. The editor would express his regret in brackets, and things would go on as before.

Genres

  • Classic Literature
  • Fiction
  • Schools
  • Cricket
  • English Humorous stories
  • Cricket bats
  • Humor, general
  • Sports, fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • Fiction, humorous
  • Great britain, fiction
  • Humorous stories, English
  • Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
  • Schools -- Juvenile fiction
  • Sports -- Juvenile fiction
  • Children’s
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  • P. G. Wodehouse

    15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975

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    Oct 06, 2016

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    Mar 20, 2018

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    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    Apr 02, 2018

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Everyman Paperback Classics

Mar 01, 2011

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    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    Mar 05, 2018

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    IndyPublish.com

    October 2003

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    IndyPublish.com

    January 2005

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    1st World Library

    2004

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    Kessinger Publishing

    June 30, 2004

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    Wildside Press

    January 2004

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    1st World Library

    September 30, 2004

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    Paperbackshop.Co.UK Ltd - Echo Library

    January 30, 2006

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    IndyPublish.com

    May 30, 2006

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    1st World Library - Literary Society

    July 1, 2005

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    Classic Books Library

    March 6, 2007

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    Waking Lion Press

    July 6, 2006

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    Souvenir Press

    1974

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    IndyPublish.com

    October 2003

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    IndyPublish.com

    January 30, 2005

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    Wildside Press

    March 1, 2004

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    BiblioBazaar

    November 9, 2006

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    IndyPublish.com

    May 30, 2006

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    BiblioBazaar

    November 9, 2006

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    Classic Books

    May 2000

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    1st World Library

    2006

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    Penguin

    1986

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    Black

    1926

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    A. & C. Black

    1926

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    A. & C. Black

    1923

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    IndyPublish

    August 9, 2007