home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
- Path: sparky!uunet!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!The-Star.honeywell.com!umn.edu!news
- From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
- Subject: Re: war camp stories
- Message-ID: <C1J8xv.5p0@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: knife.cccs.umn.edu
- Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
- Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- References: <1993Jan21.220356.18871@newsroom.bsc.no> <1993Jan26.183518.22275@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:56:18 GMT
- Lines: 19
-
-
- In article <1993Jan26.183518.22275@athena.mit.edu>, kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan) writes:
- >
- > One hesitates to answer as an expert but as I remember this episode
- > PGW was caught up in the German tour of France in 1940.
-
- The foreword and preface to "A Wodehouse Bestiary" have some more interesting
- details to add to this:
-
- Wodehouse was a Pekingese-lover, and was in France with his pet Peke "Wonder"
- at the outbreak of WWII. Britain had a 6-month quarantine in effect for pets
- being brought into the country, and the fact the he would have to be separated
- from Wonder on his return for such a long duration caused him to delay his
- departure from France until it was too late.
-
- Being a dog-lover myself, I can understand his reluctance to act in time.
-
- -- Rao Akella <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
-
-