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The Wooster Chin TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES Sir,-Your correspondent Mr. John Hayward is to a great extent right in his statement that Bertie Wooster has a receding chin. A fishlike face has always been hereditary in the Wooster family. Froissart, speaking of the Sieur de Wooster who did so well in the Crusades -his record of 11 Paynim with 12 whacks of the battleaxe still stands, I believe-mentions that, if he had not bad the forethought to con- ceal himself behind a beard like a burst horse- hair sofa, more than one of King Richard's men -who, like all of us, were fond of a good laugh -would have offered him an ant's egg. On the other hand, everything is relative. Compared with Sir Roderick Glossop, Tuppy Glossop, old Pop Stoker, Mr. Blumenfeld, and even Jeeves, Bertie is undoubtedly opistho- gnathous. But go to the Drones and observe him in the company of Freddie Widgeon, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, and-particularly-of Augus- tus Fihk-Nottle, and his chin will seem to stick out like the ram of a battleship. Your obedient servant. Novembcr 29. P. G. WODEHOUSE. THE WOOSTER CHIN
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