Re: "Incident in the Brambles" by Kortpeel
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:40 am
Kortpeel (imported) wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:03 am Yes there is one more. The first story that Doc Granger appears in is called 'Horse Trade' She was created for that story and she only appears in the second half after a stable hand lets a young girl ride a dangerous stallion.
Regarding 'Incident in the Brambles and 'The Cobbler's Tale'; I had been reading that P.G Wodehouse, writing in America, had set his stories of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves in an England that never really was. What a good idea, I thought. Don't let the facts get in the way of a good tale. So both of those stories are set in a (slightly) fictitious England, where it's always summer, always sunny and happy contented peasants touch their forelock to their betters.
Not so very fictitious. My part of the UK is huntin' country and the lanes and byways are infested with horses. Pretty soon the stable managers will be exercising the young ones that were gelded over the winter.
I remember "Horse Trade" and how the old redundant stallion Finnegans Wake is distracted with a bowl of oats while Doc Granger gets ready to cut his balls out.
Camper van Duesenberg? Nice try but wrong.