P. G. Wodehouse

Name: Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4
Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4 (1912)

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“Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4”, published in 1912, is a work by P. G. Wodehouse. It explores elements such as New York, Billy Windsor and cat.

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P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4 (1912)

“ Mr. Jarvis eyed him fixedly, as if pondering over his remarks. Then he turned to Billy again.
"Say!" he said. "Any time you're in bad. Glad to be of service. You know the address. Groome Street. Bat Jarvis. Good night. Obliged."
He paused and whistled a few more bars, then nodded to Psmith and Mike, and left the room. They heard him shuffling downstairs.
"A blithe spirit," said Psmith. "Not garrulous, perhaps, but what of that? I am a man of few words myself. Comrade Jarvis's massive silences appeal to me. He seems to have taken a fancy to you, Comrade Windsor."
Billy Windsor laughed. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4 (1912)

“ Jarvis's reputation was far from being purely local. Broadway knew him, and the Tenderloin. Tammany Hall knew him. Long Island City knew him. In the underworld of New York his name was a by-word. For Bat Jarvis was the leader of the famous Groome Street Gang, the most noted of all New York's collections of Apaches. More, he was the founder and originator of it. And, curiously enough, it had come into being from motives of sheer benevolence. In Groome Street in those days there had been a dance-hall, named the Shamrock and presided over by one Maginnis, an Irishman and a friend of Bat's. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4 (1912)

“ Rightly, Comrade Jarvis. She is not unworthy of your affection. A most companionable animal, full of the highest spirits. Her knockabout act in the restaurant would have satisfied the most jaded critic. No diner-out can afford to be without such a cat. Such a cat spells death to boredom. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4 (1912)

“ Our nervous systems must be conserved."
"On Fourth Avenue," said Billy Windsor, "you can get quite good flats very cheap. Furnished, too. You should move there. It's not much of a neighbourhood. I don't know if you mind that?"
"Far from it, Comrade Windsor. It is my aim to see New York in all its phases. If a certain amount of harmless revelry can be whacked out of Fourth Avenue, we must dash there with the vim of highly-trained smell-dogs. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4 (1912)

“ For genuine lovers of the dance fought shy of a place where at any moment Philistines might burst in and break heads and furniture. In this crisis the proprietor thought of his friend Bat Jarvis. Bat at that time had a solid reputation as a man of his hands. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4 (1912)

“ BAT JARVIS
Billy Windsor lived in a single room on East Fourteenth Street. Space in New York is valuable, and the average bachelor's apartments consist of one room with a bathroom opening off it. During the daytime this one room loses all traces of being used for sleeping purposes at night. Billy Windsor's room was very much like a public-school study. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4 (1912)

“ Jarvis as their tribal leader and protector and he protected them. For he, with his followers, were of use to the politicians. The New York gangs, and especially the Groome Street Gang, have brought to a fine art the gentle practice of "repeating"; which, broadly speaking, is the art of voting a number of different times at different polling-stations on election days. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4 (1912)

“ Still, if one got mixed up with any of that East-Side crowd, he would be a mighty useful friend to have. I guess there's no harm done by getting him grateful."
"Assuredly not," said Psmith. "We should not despise the humblest. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4 (1912)

“ All might have been well, had it not been for certain other youths of the neighbourhood who did not dance and so had to seek other means of getting rid of their surplus energy. It was the practice of these light-hearted sportsmen to pay their ten cents for admittance, and once in, to make hay. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Psmith, Journalist — Chapter 4 (1912)

“ But it was not the fact that he possessed twenty-three cats with leather collars that made Mr. Jarvis a celebrity.
A man may win a purely local reputation, if only for eccentricity, by such means. But Mr. ”

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