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"The Custody of the Pumpkin"
Short story by P. G. Wodehouse
1924 Saturday Evening Post illustration by May Wilson Preston
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Comedy
Publication
PublisherSaturday Evening Post (US)
Strand Magazine (UK)
Publication date29 November 1924 (US)
December 1924 (UK)

"The Custody of the Pumpkin" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. It first appeared in the United States in the 29 November 1924 issue of The Saturday Evening Post,[1] and in the United Kingdom in the December 1924 issue of Strand Magazine.[2][3] Part of the Blandings Castle canon, it features the absent-minded peer Lord Emsworth, and was included in the collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935), although the story takes place sometime between the events of Leave it to Psmith (1923) and Summer Lightning (1929).[4]

  1. ^ Wodehouse, P. G. (29 November 1924). "The Custody of the Pumpkin". The Saturday Evening Post. pp. 5–7, 66.
  2. ^ Midkiff, Neil (3 July 2019). "The Wodehouse short stories". Madame Eulalie. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  3. ^ Wodehouse, P. G. (December 1924). "The Custody of the Pumpkin". The Strand Magazine. pp. 613–624.
  4. ^ McIlvaine (1990), pp. 68–69, A53.

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