A Pelican at Blandings (by PG Wodehouse)

I have quite a collection of PG Wodehouse books, some of which I have read several times; some which, as far as I know, I have never previously read. One of the latter category is ‘A Pelican at Blandings’, a book which I evidently picked up second-hand somewhere, perhaps in a charity shop. My paperback edition is rather falling to pieces, as I discovered when I picked it up a few days ago to read; but a bit of sellotape fixed the worst of the problems.

I had thought, for some reason, that th...