Eckleton. That’s the public school where adventures of the unruly bunch belonging to the house of Kay’s unfold. The Head of Kay’s is an early Wodehouse novel, published in 1905. When Kennedy is tasked with bringing order to Kay’s as its head, things start taking a turn for the better in the most rambunctious house in Eckleton.

Laced with hints of Wodehouse’s classic humor, this turned out to be more fun than I expected from an early work by the maestro. Take this for example: “Nobody knows for certain the feelings of the camel when his proprietor placed that last straw on his back. The incident happened so long ago. If it had occurred in modern times, he would probably have contributed a first-hand report to the Daily Mail.” Who can resist chuckling when reading that paragraph?

Thanks again to Project Gutenberg, I am one single step away in my quest to read every published novel of Wodehouse. When I read his very first novel, The Pothunters, I would’ve achieved that goal.