Bingo Little

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Richard P. "Bingo" Little appears in a number of books by comic author P. G. Wodehouse. Bingo is a friend of Bertie Wooster and a member of the Drones Club in Dover Street, London.

He has a tendency to fall in love with most young girls he comes across, but is apt to fall just as quickly out of love with them when he sees someone else. This is not out of spite; he's just a very indecisive young chap. Among his heart's desires have been the formidable Honoria Glossop, her friend Daphne Braythwayt, and Myrtle, the barmaid of the Five Crowns in Twing.

After much heart-ache and falling in love with girls he saw on the bus, Bingo settled down and married the romance novelist Rosie M. Banks. The union was then blessed with a son, Algernon Aubrey. He continued to appear in short stories, both alongside and independently of Bertie Wooster, and usually involving some financial scrape.

Bingo Little starred in the following short stories: Jeeves in the Springtime (1921); Scoring Off Jeeves, Comrade Bingo, The Great Sermon Handicap, The Purity of the Turf, The Metropolitan Touch, Bingo and the Little Woman (all 1922); Clustering Round Young Bingo (1925); Jeeves and the Impending Doom (1926); Jeeves and the Old School Chum (1930); All's Well with Bingo, Bingo and the Peke Crisis (both 1937); The Editor Regrets, Sonny Boy (both 1939); The Word in Season (1940); The Shadow Passes (1950); The Ordeal of Bingo Little (1954); Leave it to Algy (1959); Bingo Bans the Bomb and Stylish Stouts (both 1965). He was also mentioned in the 1939 Freddie Widgeon story Bramley is so Bracing and the 1949 Bertie Wooster novel The Mating Season.