title: Tales Of St. Austin's: A British Humor Classic
author: P. G. Wodehouse
description: Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read. Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies. Wodehouse is one of the best of British Humor writers! Enjoy!
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  ## Tales of St. Austin's
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## TALES OF ST AUSTIN'S
  
  
  ## by P. G. Wodehouse
  
  
  ## 1903
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Most of these stories originally appeared in The Captain. I am indebted to the
  Editor of that magazine for allowing me to republish. The rest are from the
  Public School Magazine. The story entitled 'A Shocking Affair' appears in
  print for the first time. 'This was one of our failures.'
  
  
  P. G. Wodehouse
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  AD MATREM
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **HOW PILLINGSHOT SCORED**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Pillingshot was annoyed. He was disgusted, mortified; no other word for it. He
  had no objection, of course, to Mr Mellish saying that his work during the
  term, and especially his Livy, had been disgraceful. A master has the right to
  say that sort of thing if he likes. It is one of the perquisites of the
  position. But when he went on to observe, without a touch of shame, that there
  would be an examination in the Livy as far as 