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Updated: May 14, 2025
And now, I suppose, as the result of this dashed psychology of yours, Aunt Dahlia is so sore with me that it will be years before I can dare to show my face here again years, Jeeves, during which, night after night, Anatole will be cooking those dinners of his " "No, sir. It was to prevent any such contingency that I suggested that you should bicycle to Kingham Manor.
And then I have made a little purchase within this half year; East Kingham Farm, you must remember the place, where old Gibson used to live. The land was so very desirable for me in every respect, so immediately adjoining my own property, that I felt it my duty to buy it. I could not have answered it to my conscience to let it fall into any other hands.
"You'll soon get the knack after you've taken a toss or two. Trial and error. The only way." "But it's miles to Kingham." "So the sooner you're off, the better." "But " "Bertie, dear." "But, dash it " "Bertie, darling." "Yes, but dash it " "Bertie, my sweet." And so it was arranged.
In short, what with all this mental disturbance added to the more purely physical anguish in the billowy portions and the calves and ankles, the Bertram Wooster who eventually toppled off at the door of Kingham Manor was a very different Bertram from the gay and insouciant boulevardier of Bond Street and Piccadilly.
Almost the first time I went to Evesham, in passing Chipping Norton Junction now Kingham three or four men on the platform, in charge of the police, attracted my attention. I was told that they were rioters, guilty of a breach of the peace in connection with the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, then under the leadership of Joseph Arch.
Even to one unaware of the inside facts, it would have been evident that Kingham Manor was throwing its weight about a bit tonight. Lights shone in the windows, music was in the air, and as I drew nearer my ear detected the sibilant shuffling of the feet of butlers, footmen, chauffeurs, parlourmaids, housemaids, tweenies and, I have no doubt, cooks, who were busily treading the measure.
I was interested to read in Mr. Warde Fowler's Kingham Old and New an account of a peculiar ceremony called "Skimmington," by Mr. Hardy, in his Mayor of Casterbridge which took place in Kingham village. I have known of two similar cases, one in Surrey and one at Aldington, under the name of "rough music."
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