Read "Mike" by P. G. Wodehouse online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
The only two members of the house not out in the grounds when he arrived were Mike and Psmith. They were standing on the gravel drive in front of the boys' entrance. Mike had a deck-chair in one hand and a book in the other. Psmith -- for even the greatest minds will sometimes unbend -- was playing diabolo. That is to say, he was trying without success to raise the spool from the ground.
"There's a kid in France," said Mike disparagingly, as the bobbin rolled off the string for the fourth time, "who can do it three thousand seven hundred and something times. "