‘The Purity of the Turf’ by P. G. Wodehouse

This would be my Desert Island short story if I could only take one of the dozen. I can’t see how this account of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster betting on the races, especially the girls’ egg and spoon, at a local village fete could be bettered. It’s just perfect.

First published in The Strand Magazine, July 1922. Collected in The Inimitable Jeeves, Herbert Jenkins, 1923