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Title: Mike

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Release Date: June 15, 2004 [EBook #7423]

Language: English

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MIKE

A PUBLIC SCHOOL STORY

BY
P. G. WODEHOUSE

CONTAINING TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
BY T. M. R. WHITWELL

LONDON
1909.

[Illustration (Frontispiece): "ARE YOU THE M. JACKSON THEN WHO HAD AN
AVERAGE OF FIFTY ONE POINT NOUGHT THREE LAST YEAR?"]

[Dedication]
TO
ALAN DURAND

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. MIKE

II. THE JOURNEY DOWN

III. MIKE FINDS A FRIENDLY NATIVE

IV. AT THE NETS

V. REVELRY BY NIGHT

VI. IN WHICH A TIGHT CORNER IS EVADED

VII. IN WHICH MIKE IS DISCUSSED

VIII. A ROW WITH THE TOWN

IX. BEFORE THE STORM

X. THE GREAT PICNIC

XI. THE CONCLUSION OF THE PICNIC

XII. MIKE GETS HIS CHANCE

XIII. THE M.C.C. MATCH

XIV. A SLIGHT IMBROGLIO

XV. MIKE CREATES A VACANCY

XVI. AN EXPERT EXAMINATION

XVII. ANOTHER VACANCY

XVIII. BOB HAS NEWS TO IMPART

XIX. MIKE GOES TO SLEEP AGAIN

XX. THE TEAM IS FILLED UP

XXI. MARJORY THE FRANK

XXII. WYATT IS REMINDED OF AN ENGAGEMENT

XXIII. A SURPRISE FOR MR. APPLEBY

XXIV. CAUGHT

XXV. MARCHING ORDERS

XXVI. THE AFTERMATH

XXVII. THE RIPTON MATCH

XXVIII. MIKE WINS HOME

XXIX. WYATT AGAIN

XXX. MR. JACKSON MAKES UP HIS MIND

XXXI. SEDLEIGH

XXXII. PSMITH

XXXIII. STAKING OUT A CLAIM

XXXIV. GUERILLA WARFARE

XXXV. UNPLEASANTNESS IN THE SMALL HOURS

XXXVI. ADAIR

XXXVII. MIKE FINDS OCCUPATION

XXXVIII. THE FIRE BRIGADE MEETING

XXXIX. ACHILLES LEAVES HIS TENT

XL. THE MATCH WITH DOWNING'S

XLI. THE SINGULAR BEHAVIOUR OF JELLICOE

XLII. JELLICOE GOES ON THE SICK-LIST

XLIII. MIKE RECEIVES A COMMISSION

XLIV. AND FULFILS IT

XLV. PURSUIT

XLVI. THE DECORATION