In all my Blossom bookstore-skimming years, I have never struck gold at the bookstore the way I did a week ago. Behold, A Book of Wit and Humour, PAN Books, circa 1949. The funniest stories on all things English: cricket matches, loony aunts, the Modern Man, greasy bounders, places like Cudlingham, with words like `curmudgeonly` and `brilliantine` appearing with a flourish. One rich fat chuckle all the way through. Missed the Master greatly, though (PG Wodehouse, that is) and suspect an editor's note preceding the A A Milne piece was a sly dig at ole Plum. Still, gold.
Note for non-Bangaloreans: Blossom is an incredible bookstore where we seek ... and find... old books, new books, all kinds of books.