# Ukridge Stories — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Ukridge Stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Dedication](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/dedication.md): The author dedicates the book to his friend Old Bill Townend, who first introduced him to Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.
- [Ukridge Stories](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/ukridge-stories.md): A collection of stories centered around the irrepressible Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, a man of grand schemes and perpetual optimism, whose adventures in get-rich-quick ventures and social maneuvering are chronicle
- [Ukridge's Dog College](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/ukridge-s-dog-college.md): Ukridge proposes that the narrator write his biography for a fortune, then reveals his latest scheme: a dog-training college for performing dogs. He has moved to a cottage in Sheep's Cray, Kent, after being thrown out by
- [Ukridge's Accident Syndicate](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/ukridge-s-accident-syndicate.md): Ukridge proposes an accident syndicate where members pay into a pool and the one who draws the lot must have an accident to claim the insurance money. Teddy Weeks draws the lot but proves reluctant to fulfill his duty, l
- [The Début of Battling Billson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/the-d-but-of-battling-billson.md): Ukridge reveals his latest scheme: Battling Billson will fight Tod Bingham for a cash prize. To motivate Billson, Ukridge orchestrates a fake letter from Billson's fiancée, Flossie, claiming she loves another man—Tod Bin
- [First Aid for Dora](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/first-aid-for-dora.md): The narrator encounters Ukridge helping a young woman named Dora Mason onto a bus, revealing Ukridge's uncharacteristic interest in the opposite sex. Ukridge explains that Dora is his aunt's secretary-companion and he fe
- [The Return of Battling Billson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/the-return-of-battling-billson.md): The narrator, James Corcoran, recounts a humiliating incident where he is thrown out of a pub in Ratcliff Highway after being pickpocketed and unable to pay for his drink. He then receives a letter from Ukridge asking hi
- [Ukridge Sees Her Through](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/ukridge-sees-her-through.md): The narrator attempts dictation with a stenographer, discovering it is Dora Mason, who reveals Ukridge guaranteed a hundred pounds for her partnership in a typewriting bureau. Ukridge later visits, boasting about the nar
- [No Wedding Bells for Him](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/no-wedding-bells-for-him.md): Ukridge and the narrator encounter a creditor while riding in a borrowed car, leading Ukridge to move into the narrator's lodgings. Ukridge then devises a scheme inspired by a novelette plot to avoid marrying Mabel Price
- [The Long Arm of Looney Coote](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/the-long-arm-of-looney-coote.md): The narrator encounters his old schoolmate Looney Coote at the races, whose superstitious betting habits and recent pickpocketing incident lead to a discussion about omens and misfortune. Later, at the Old Wrykinian dinn
- [The Exit of Battling Billson](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/the-exit-of-battling-billson.md): Ukridge's plan for a boxing match with Battling Billson falls apart when Billson, after attending a revival meeting, declares fighting sinful and refuses to fight. Ukridge decides to substitute himself in the ring under 
- [Ukridge Rounds a Nasty Corner](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/ukridge-rounds-a-nasty-corner.md): The narrator, preparing for his first meeting with Lady Lakenheath to assist with her late husband's memoirs, receives a surprise delivery from Ukridge: a bottle of patent medicine called 'Peppo' and a hatbox containing 
- [A Bit of Luck for Mabel](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/a-bit-of-luck-for-mabel.md): Ukridge keeps Corky up all night recounting a tale from his past about a woman named Mabel, whose father made a fortune in Singapore. He explains how a top hat—confiscated by his landlady Mrs. Beale over an unpaid debt—n
- [Buttercup Day](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/buttercup-day.md): Ukridge meets Corky in Piccadilly and laments his lack of capital, hindered by his aunt Julia's refusal to give him money. They encounter flag-sellers, and later at a bazaar, a curate exposes a fraudulent 'Buttercup Day'
- [The Level Business Head](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/the-level-business-head.md): Ukridge recounts to Corky how he pawned his Aunt Julia's brooch to buy a half-share in a dog that was supposed to win the Waterloo Cup, only for the dog to die. He then cleverly sells the dead dog back to Joe the Lawyer 
- [Ukridge and the Old Stepper](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/ukridge_stories_se/chapters/ukridge-and-the-old-stepper.md): Ukridge recounts to Corky his disastrous attempt to ingratiate himself with Sir Edward Bayliss, a jute magnate, at his aunt's cottage in Market Deeping. His scheme unravels when he is caught stealing roses, a sundial, an

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