The Ordeal of Young Tuppy
| "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" | |
|---|---|
| Author | P. G. Wodehouse |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jeeves |
| Genre(s) | Comedy |
| Publisher | The Strand Magazine |
| Media type | Print (Magazine) |
| Publication date | April 1930 |
| Preceded by | "Indian Summer of an Uncle" |
| Followed by | Thank You, Jeeves |
"The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in April 1930, and in Cosmopolitan in the United States that same month, both as "Tuppy Changes His Mind". The story was also included as the eleventh story in the 1930 collection Very Good, Jeeves.
In the story, Tuppy Glossop falls for the athletic Miss Dalgleish, and endures a rough match of rugby football to win her over. Bertie's Aunt Dahlia wants Tuppy to lose interest in Miss Dalgleish and reunite with her daughter, Angela Travers.
Jeeves packs for Bertie's upcoming visit to Bleaching Court, where Bertie hopes to use practical jokes to get revenge on Tuppy Glossop for tricking him into falling into the Drones Club swimming pool. Bertie gets a puzzling telegram from Tuppy, asking Bertie to bring Tuppy's football boots and an Irish water-spaniel to Bleaching Court. He is then visited by his Aunt Dahlia, who has heard that her daughter Angela's on-and-off fiancé Tuppy is flirting with an athletic girl named Miss Dalgleish who lives near Bleaching. The girl is fond of dogs; Bertie supposes Tuppy wants an Irish water-spaniel to give her as a gift. Aunt Dahlia wants Tuppy to go back to Angela. Jeeves says he will attend to the matter.
At Bleaching Court, Bertie gives Tuppy the football boots, but no Irish water-spaniel, which disappoints Tuppy. Tuppy is going to play in an upcoming football match for Miss Dalgleish. Jeeves tells Bertie that the local football match, which pits two feuding villages, Upper Bleaching and Hockley-cum-Meston, against each other, is traditionally violent. However, Tuppy is eager to prove himself to Miss Dalgleish, despite Bertie's misgivings. Tuppy is in love with her. Bertie asks Jeeves to go to London and send a telegram, signed by his aunt, which says that Angela is seriously ill and keeps calling for Tuppy. Bertie plans to give Tuppy the telegram during a lull in the match, so that Tuppy will have seen how rough the football match is and then hurry back to Angela.
— Bertie is impressed by Tuppy
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