P. G. Wodehouse

Name: Mike's Little Brother
Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Mike's Little Brother (1913)

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“Mike's Little Brother”, published in 1913, is a work by P. G. Wodehouse. It explores elements such as New York, Mike and Tim.

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P. G. Wodehouse, Mike's Little Brother (1913)

“ I am bound to say that by that time I had become as hopeless of setting eyes on Tim in the flesh as ever Mike in his gloomiest moments had been. The better I became acquainted with New York, the more was I impressed with the vastness of the place and the impossibility of finding a man who has disappeared in such a jungle of humanity. New York is not like London.. There is no one spot in it which everyone must visit. In London, it has been well said, if you want a man, you may go to Charing Cross and wait. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Mike's Little Brother (1913)

“ It was not long before I began to build up in my mind's eye a picture of the vanished Tim. Each night some remark of Mike's would add another touch to the portrait. Why I got the idea that Tim was delicate I do not know. I suppose it came from Mike's insistence on the epithet “little.” At any rate, Tim to me was a slightly-built boy, curly-haired, blue-eyed and pale. Not unlike little Lord Fauntleroy, grown up. Sometimes he had a cough.
There were nights in the hot weather when Mike would be despondent. A New York summer night does not encourage optimism. Tim was dead. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Mike's Little Brother (1913)

“ But it's hard. Bad days to ye, ye small sawn-off, for spoilin' a man's pleasure,” he concluded, eyeing the little German reproachfully. “Which way do we go, Micky boy?”
And then Michael rose to the situation like a hero. He sank his private feelings in order to give his little brother pleasure. Tim was the type of Irishman to whom a fight at any hour of the day is meat and drink, regardless of the identity of his opponent. He would have fought his dearest friend for pure love of the thing. But Mike was differently constituted. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Mike's Little Brother (1913)

“ Young mister man here can see fair, and I'll just be the plain cop and give ye all the fight you need.”
“Micky boy,” said Tim, deeply moved, “ye're a jool.”
Tim apparently favoured the hurricane style of fighting. He rushed in with a whoop, and was hit out again with a drive under the chin. He gulped once or twice. “Faith,” he said, “I thought me head was off. Ye've a fine, strong left, Micky boy.”
“Ye want to watch for it comin' up sudden when ye swing,” said Mike. “Ye never would trouble about your guard, Timmy,” he went on, more in sorrow than in anger. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Mike's Little Brother (1913)

“ Anything may happen to anyone in New York.
Michael Burke and his brother Tim had journeyed from Skibbereen to the land where dollar bills grow on trees, without any definite idea what they were going to do when they arrived there; and New York had handled such promising material in its best manner. Michael it had given to the ranks of the police. Tim it had spirited away. Utterly and absolutely he had vanished. Michael had left Ellis Island while Tim was still there. “And divil a sign,” said he, swinging his club sadly, “have I seen of me little brother from that day on.” ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Mike's Little Brother (1913)

“ Things had been quiet at Windle Market of late, and there is no doubt that a murder gives a gifted young reporter, anxious to display his powers to an editor who has always shown a touch of scepticism concerning them, a distinct chance. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Mike's Little Brother (1913)

“ You may have to wait a long time, but sooner or later he will come. New York has no Charing Cross.
My heart was sore for Mike—sorest when he was most cheerful and talked of the great times he and Tim would have together when they met. It hurt me to hear him talk. Tim was dead—I knew it. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Mike's Little Brother (1913)

“ Mike wiped his brow and looked deprecatingly at me. “Ye mustn't think me little brother can't fight,” he said. “He's a rale good boy, if he wasn't so careless. Boy and man he never would remember to kape watch over his body, the way it wouldn't get jolted by a blow. But for all I've beaten him, don't you think, young mister man, as me little brother isn't a rale good fighter. ”

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