Question for the wise:

[feather_qwill]

Would anybody be able to help me out? I'm writing a fic, but I lack one detail needed for it to be complete. When Seabury is first introduced, how much money does he ask for from the assorted characters? I seem to recall it differing from person to person. Please help!

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[veronamay.livejournal.com]

He asks Bertie and Dwight for five shillings each, I remember that much. His mother tells Bertie he only takes according to the individual's means, so it's proportional.

[hawkeyesmartini.livejournal.com]

I think he also asks Sir Glossup for ten schillings.

<:3D~

[feather_qwill]

Alright, thanks muchly! (to you both)
<3<3<3


Also, does nayone know the name of the boy he was always fighting with in that story? I think it's Edwin, but I might be wrong.

[hawkeyesmartini.livejournal.com]

The other person mentioned it - Dwight.

<:3D~

[feather_qwill]

Gwaah! really? Who is Edwin, then?

[hawkeyesmartini.livejournal.com]

*shrug* No idea. I've only just finished watching the second season. I'm somewhat of a newbie to J&W.

<:3D~

[feather_qwill]

Hmmm . . . perhaps it's another one of those book/series name changes . . . *is hopeful*

bye the way . .. yay to House.

[mechanicaljewel.livejournal.com]

Edwin is Florence Craye's brother. He is described as a 'Boy Scout' who is all caught up in doing good deeds and inadvertently hinders Bertie's quest (put to him by Florence, whom he was engaged to at the time) to prevent Lord Worplesdon's memoirs from being sent to the printer, because they contained slightly scandalous tales of Lord Worplesdon and Florence's father in their youth.

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

Wait...what? Isn't Lord Worplesdon Florence's father? Percy Craye, the somethingth Earl of Worplesdon, who later marries Aunt Agatha.

I've still never seen season 4, but I've read the story "Jeeves Takes Charge" a number of times which would be embarassing if I had any shame. Florence and Bertie are engaged, and Bertie's uncle Sir Willoughby Wooster has just written his memoirs, which are full of accounts of the youthful peccadillos of various pillars of Society. Including Florence's father, which is why she hits the ceiling and demands that Bertie steal the manuscript. Bertie suggests (to Florence's total unamusement) that she get Edwin to do it, since these Boy Scouts are "up to all sorts of dodges." Edwin definitely is--on another occasion ("Joy in the Morning") he accidently burns down the cottage Bertie's renting, in one of his misguided Acts of Kindness. Don't give a boy scout gunpowder. I seem to recall Florence displaying a brief moment of humanity and booting him in the rear.

Dwight is the young son of the American millionaire J. Washburn Stoker, brother to Pauline and Emerald and utterly spoiled. Like nearly all young boys in Wodehouse, come to think of it...

That's the news from Wodehouse Britain, where all the women are strong, all the young men are silly, and all the children need to be smacked upside the head.

[derien.livejournal.com]

That's the news from Wodehouse Britain, where all the women are strong, all the young men are silly, and all the children need to be smacked upside the head.

*<3's you for putting Wodehouse/Lake Woebegone images in her mind!*

[mechanicaljewel.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that was it. Sorry, didn't have the book with me, thought something seemed a bit off. These people and all their different names!

Nobody listen to me, I know not what I say.

[captainpellew.livejournal.com]

*blinks* Are you from Minnesota?

[derien.livejournal.com]

No. :) My mother and grandmother both have always been huge fans of Prairie Home Companion for years, I practically grew up on it - all women in my family are genetically predispositioned to have a crush on Garrison Keillor's voice, apparently. ;) And there are some things that ring very strongly with people from Maine, too - the long, cold, winters and farms.

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm from California and I still grew up on Prairie Home Companion...long Sunday evening car rides back from the beach, sunburned and sleepy, with Garrison Keillor on the radio singing about "Be-Bop-A-Ree-Bop Rhubarb Pie."

It was a pretty random reference, I admit, but I suppose the Letters from Lake Wobegon do have some commonalities with Wodehouse: long-running, complicatedly interconnected cast of characters, silly character driven humor, and a sense that nothing too terrible can ever happen. Not that I was thinking about any of this...I guess it's just kind of part of my taste in fiction.

[truly-bohemian.livejournal.com]

In the book Seabury asks Bertie for five shillings, and Dwight for one shilling and sixpence before Dwight refuses to pay. I don't know about the other characters, or even if it was mentioned, but I can always look it up. It differs according to their means, I know that much. ^_^