A Wodehouse Bestiary by P.G. Wodehouse 329 pp.
This is a collection of short stories and random chapters from Wodehouse novels, some including Jeeves & Wooster, and all involving animals in some way. In one there is a house that seems to cause residents and visitors, even anti-hunting ones, to become rabid about hunting and killing game animals. Another has a potentially doomed engagement salvaged because of a dog and a cowardly suitor but with no help from a dog food salesman. In a third, a trip to the horse track helps a friend of Bertie Wooster's get rid of a troubling house guest who has endangered his marriage by forcing them into an extreme vegetarian diet. These are just a few of the classic Wodehouse tales collected in this volume. Some I read before in other collections but many were new to me. It's enjoyable, humorous, frequently silly, light reading.
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