It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hu…

P. G. Wodehouse
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It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. ✨ Ring for Jeeves. Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1953.
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It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. ✨ Ring for Jeeves. Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1953.

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