instance, he claims he wrote nearly all of the special issue for The Glow Worm. The American edition of the novel was issued by Macmillan, New York, from imported sheets, in September 1902. Macmillan reissued the novel again from imported sheets in 1924. The Pothunters is dedicated to Joan, Effie and Ernestine Bowes-Lyon, first cousins to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The novel was collected in The Pothunters and Other School Stories, published by Penguin Books in 1986. The book also included A Prefect's Uncle and Tales of St. Austin's. Annotations The advance of technology has made part of the story opaque to the modern reader. "On Sunday we jellygraph it", writes Wodehouse without explanation. Jellygraph was a method of making a limited number of copies, about 20 to 80, from a master copy written with a special type of pencil containing jellygraph pigment. These special pencils are referred to in the story: "How many jelly machine things can you raise?" The master copy—on paper—was placed face down in a pan whose bottom was covered in a special gelatin, to which the pigment was transferred as a mirror image. The copies were then made one at a time by placing blank sheets of paper onto the gelatin after the master copy was removed. Although a reasonably simple, if slow, method, the copy produced had text (and figures) in a pale coloured ink that was hard to read. In chapter 11, one of the characters quotes a Latin phrase (attributing it to Thucydides): Conscia mens recti, nec si sinit esse dolorem sed revocare gradum. This is a joke: Thucydides wrote in Greek, not Latin (as Wodehouse would have expected the reader to know) and the quoted phrase is in fact a mixture of lines from Ovid and Virgil. Disambiguation There is also a short story "The Pot-Hunters" (1907) by Rex Beach. A copy exists in The Internet Archive: Rex Beach's The Pot-Hunters References Notes Sources External links The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with photos of book covers and list of characters Free eBook of The Pothunters at Project Gutenberg Novels by P. G. Wodehouse 1902 British novels 1902 children's books British children's novels Novels first published in serial form British comedy novels Works originally published in British magazines Works originally published in children's magazines A & C Black books Novels set in schools 1902 debut novels