"Morning, Jeeves,” I said.
“Good morning, sir,” said Jeeves.
He put the good old cup of tea softly on the table by my bed, and I took a refreshing sip. Just right, as usual…. Jeeves seems to know when I’m awake by a sort of telepathy. He always floats in with the cup exactly two minutes after I come to life. Makes a deuce of a lot of difference to a fellow’s day.
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 30 years after his death. Wodehouse(the name, by the way, is pronounced “Woodhouse”) wrote comic stories about upper-class society
Learn more about P.G. Wodehouse here
Task: Write a dialogue - half-a-page - between Jeeves and Bertie, where Bertie is proposing to do something ridiculous. Your challenge is to include lots of Wodehouse slang and vary your use of speech verbs
Bonus: Listen to the Jeeves and Wooster theme tune!
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