The Reverent Wooing Of Archibald
"The Reverent Wooing of Archibald" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a part of the Mr Mulliner series and related to the Drones Club series. It features Archibald Mulliner, the sock collector who can mimic a hen laying an egg, and his love Aurelia Cammarleigh. Its was first published in the August 1928 issue of UK literary magazine Strand, and first appeared in the U.S. in the September 1928 issue of Cosmopolitan. It was collected in the 1929 book Mr Mulliner Speaking.
"The Reverent Wooing of Archibald" has been adapted on TV by BBC One for the sitcom anthology Comedy Playhouse, as a 30 minutes episode, aired 9 July 1974.
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