What do you say? The change in Aunt Julia made me feel quite dizzy. I felt weak. It was first published in the U.S. in the 15 … Having become too involved, your Aunt comes over to straighten things out. Yet, twenty-five years ago, so I've been told by old boys who were lads about town in those days, she was knocking them cold at the Tivoli in a double act called 'Fun in a Tea-Shop', in which she wore tights and sang a song with a chorus that began, 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay'. 'Come back where you belong, Julie!' If I ever breakfasted at half past eight I should walk on the Embankment, trying to end it all in a watery grave. She was sitting bolt upright in a chair, staring into space. I steadied myself against the wall. L'Affaire Uncle John (A Story in Letters), Short stories published in The Strand Magazine, Short stories published in The Saturday Evening Post, https://wodehouse.fandom.com/wiki/Extricating_Young_Gussie?oldid=1851. This is one of my favorite Bertie stories and sets the stage for all the New York stories. ', 'Oh, that's part of the story. Bertie's imperious Aunt Agathaalso appears. I'm the happiest man in New York. 'By Jove,' I said, for I am interested in this heredity stuff, 'perhaps the thing is going to be a regular family tradition, like you read about in books--a sort of Curse of the Mannering-Phippses, as it were. 'Heaps! Shall I ever forget the way you used to knock them with "Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay"? He said this was what rabbits trained on when they were matched against grizzly bears, and there was only one instance on record of the bear having lasted three rounds. I merely say that she routed me out of bed to listen to her painful story somewhere in the small hours. Delightfully funny short story. She believes Gussie Mannerling-Phipps—her nephew and Bertie's cousin—plans to marry a … The girl next to me got up in her seat, chucked her head back, and began to sing too. ', 'Please do not be quite idiotic, Bertie. The old bean will stand a certain amount, but this was too much. My idea had been that I should look in at night, when--if he survived--he would be coming up for the fourth time; but I've never deserted a pal in distress, so I said good-bye to the little lunch I'd been planning at a rather decent tavern I'd discovered on Fifth Avenue, and trailed along. The first meeting of Jeeves and Bertie would be chronicled one year later, in the November 1916 short story "Jeeves Takes Charge". As usual with Gussie Fink - Nottle he is in LOVE! 'Shall I come over?'. She pitched forward into his arms, and he caught her. Wodehouse "Extricating Young Gussie" STUDY. You go out of a barn and down some stairs, and there you are, right in among it. Well, you remember at Oxford I could always sing a song pretty well; so Ray got hold of old Riesbitter and made him promise to come and hear me rehearse and get me bookings if he liked my work. I was sorry for the wretched chap, of course, but there was no denying that the thing had its bright side. I should think Queen Elizabeth must have been something like her. Gussie registered respectful attention. Wodehouse's series of comic novels featuring young British dilettante Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, and his wry valet Jeeves, who is often the cause of his salvation from increasingly entangled social situations. When I went in I had seen that there was a deucedly pretty girl sitting in that particular seat, so I had taken the next one. This is a great short comedy! He told me in a hushed voice that he was using it because it was one of the songs that the girl Ray sang when lifting them out of their seats at Mosenstein's and elsewhere. ', 'My husband died a long, long while ago, Joe. The non-Jeeves stories feature Reggie Pepper.) On the following Wednesday Aunt Julia arrived. All over the country, as August wanes, sparkling comediennes burst into bloom, the sap stirs in the veins of tramp cyclists, and last year's contortionists, waking from their summer sleep, tie themselves tentatively into knots. The mater! As a song, it was not a very pathetic song, being all about coons spooning in June under the moon, and so on and so forth, but Gussie handled it in such a sad, crushed way that there was genuine anguish in every line. I knew Aunt Agatha well enough to know that, if she had come to see me, she was going to see me. When did you arrive? He appealed to me whether the thing didn't want a bit of pep, and I said it wanted all the pep it could get. Come back! 'Bertie! Think of it! Heredity, and so forth. This is a short novella or a long short-story, just the right length for an airplane read. 'How on earth do you know anything about young Wilson? The old boy would say, 'Unhand my daughter'. 'You're here, kid,' said Old Danby, huskily. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack. And I edged for the door and slipped from the room. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. I think I've got brain fever or something. ', 'Well, you try calling yourself Augustus Mannering-Phipps over here, and see how it strikes you. I was surprised to find the streets quite full. EXTRICATING YOUNG GUSSIE She sprang it on me before breakfast. It can be read for free here: Under instructions from his Aunt, Bertie, heads to the U.S to bring home his cousin, Gussie. I merely say that she routed me out of bed to listen to her painful story somewhere in the small hours. The thing had got beyond me. Not much of Jeeves in this one, for those who read the stories for Jeeves' silent unknotting. He is not clever, but he is very good-looking, and, though he has no title, the Mannering-Phippses are one of the best and oldest families in England. What did you say, Bertie? The early fall,' said Gussie, who is a bit of a poet in his way, 'is vaudeville's springtime. Welcome back. [T.L.] And there's another reason. ', I am not interested in your totterings and tricklings. 'Yes, Joe. This was funny. Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha is at her wit's end. [1] I had got as far as that when there was a kind of gasping cry at my elbow. Delightful listening! I had been looking at it at intervals ever since. Joe!' She spoke quite quietly, but her voice shook a bit. Her eyes shone queerly. He was looking most frightfully bucked. I never worked so hard in my life as I did to become a real lady. Bertie, I've fallen in love with the dearest girl in the world.'. They were showing pictures when I reached my seat. that he might just as well stay where he is, the sheriff having a horse of his own which can do three hundred miles an hour without coughing. What was the next step? There in seven words you have a complete character sketch of my Aunt Agatha. I was feeling like a badly wrapped brown-paper parcel. She always seems to me to be in a perpetual state of being about to desire the butler to instruct the head footman to serve lunch in the blue-room overlooking the west terrace. No, let me be honest. He's an artist, too. As a result, Bertie is left to his own devices, which, for once, appear to have been effectual, in re the objective implied in the descriptive title of the work. P. G. Wodehouse Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. This page was last edited on 28 September 2018, at 20:45 (UTC). 'He left your Aunt Julia very little money for a woman in her position. If you feel up to it perhaps you wouldn't mind tottering round to One Hundred and Thirty-third Street and having a chat with him. Why did you cable for me, Bertie? I can't express it better than by saying that the thought uppermost in my mind, as I walked about the place they call Times Square, was that there were three thousand miles of deep water between me and my Aunt Agatha. 'Thank you. If I had tried to explain the affair without the aid of illustrations I should have talked all day and left her muddled up as to who was going to marry whom, and why. You are going to America because you are Gussie's cousin, because you have always been his closest friend, because you are the only one of the family who has absolutely nothing to occupy his time except golf and night clubs. I wanted you, Julie. He's got it in him. This was going to be Gussie's first and only. A little chappie with a hooked nose sucked a cigarette and played the piano all day. I think it was clean too, besides one use of donkey (but that wasn't a curse word in the day). - In terror of his Aunts - no changes will come of That sentiment in the future!) No Augustus Mannering-Phipps on the premises. That's the sort of woman she is. If you don't mind, I'll let you have it in a series of motion pictures. Wooster - known for some reason in this story to have the same name as the early name as his cousin , Mr Mannering Phipps - does not work as well now does it? She sprang it … 'Well, I rather thought of tottering out for a bite of lunch later on, and then possibly staggering round to the club, and after that, if I felt strong enough, I might trickle off to Walton Heath for a round of golf. 'The girl Gussie's engaged to.'. She did not move a muscle, but just stared at Gussie as he drooled on about the moon. Nobody was fonder of old Uncle Cuthbert than I was, but everybody knows that, where money was concerned, he was the most complete chump in the annals of the nation. But there the thing was, and you couldn't get away from it. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse.Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha is at her wit's end. ', 'You said that you were going to explain that George Wilson business to me, Gussie, old man.'. Nobody ever mentions it, and the family have been trying to forget it for twenty-five years, but it's a known fact that my Aunt Julia, Gussie's mother, was a vaudeville artist once, and a very good one, too, I'm told. This is no exception. She bosses her husband, Spencer Gregson, a battered little chappie on the Stock Exchange. For the first time since I had heard that he was about to go into vaudeville I felt a faint hope creeping over me. She did herself well in the matter of costume and scenery. He would have to leave the profession. Reading: Literature--P.G. 'It's twenty-five years since I was in a music-hall!'. What it comes to is that I can fix you up in the four-a-day, if you'll take thirty-five per. ', 'Do you remember how we put it across at the Canterbury, Joe? That is why I have come to you.'. 'Yes, America. You have no engagements. He was before our time, but I remember hearing about him--Joe Danby. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. No I'll tell you the truth, kid. ', 'Bertie, old man, I feel immense. I also met her father, a formidable old boy with quick eyebrows and a sort of determined expression. 'Ray and I got back to her flat this evening. The first meeting of Jeeves and Bertie would be chronicled one year later, in the November 1916 short story "Jeeves Takes Charge".[3]. gelatine. 'I wish I could feel like that, old top,' I said, and I took another glance at a cable that had arrived half an hour ago from Aunt Agatha. When he was gone I took up the cable and read it again. "Extricating Young Gussie" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. Now the trouble really starts. I admit I was hard hit. Take it or leave it. You ain't bad for an amateur. So well done, and so well articulated by the "Audible" reader. I suppose'--old Danby's cheerfulness waned a trifle--'I suppose your husband is with you? And, worst of all, she bosses me. What did you think all that meant, if not that I loved you? And then I saw she was going to start something, and I bleated weakly to Jeeves to bring me tea. I put myself unreservedly into the hands of one of the white chappies. In the tramcars they were absolutely standing on each other's necks. It reminded me of the night at Oxford when, then but a lad of eighteen, he sang 'Let's All Go Down the Strand' after a bump supper, standing the while up to his knees in the college fountain. ', 'Because that is where your Cousin Gussie is. ', 'Do you remember my giving you a seed-cake at Birmingham? he said, devoutly. I'm not saying a word against the late--I can't remember his name; never could--but you shouldn't have done it, an artist like you. Come along in here, and I'll tell you about it. And now, as you heard him say, he's booked me in the small time at thirty-five dollars a week.'. But she had begun before I could get it. Joe, you don't know what I've been through for his sake. Don't let me go. She didn't say any more, but sat there with her eyes glued on the stage. 'What is this about Gussie? I was going to need her. He seemed to take my sympathy and assistance for granted, and I couldn't let him down. ', GUSSIE (rather rattled at the interruption): 'Waiting for me. ', 'Jeeves,' I said, 'we start for America on Saturday. What I mean is, this is the beginning of the new season, and everybody's out hunting for bookings. He wasn't taking any chances. He had got back his voice and was putting the stuff over well. You are too lazy to try to be a credit to yourself, but at least you can exert yourself to prevent Gussie's disgracing us. ', 'I've changed my name. As luck would have it, we hadn't been in the place ten minutes when out he came. ', 'Why you? I call myself George Wilson. It's twenty-five years ago, but I haven't changed. I have never met anyone who can give a better imitation of the Ancient Mariner. There was a brief respite, then out he came again. My only hope, which grew as I listened to him rehearsing, was that he would be such a frightful frost at his first appearance that he would never dare to perform again; and, as that would automatically squash the marriage, it seemed best to me to let the thing go on. ', 'Do you remember my giving you the ham sandwiches at Portsmouth? Unto the what-d'you-call-it generation, don't you know? There in seven words you have a complete character sketch of my Aunt Agatha. She believes Gussie Mannerling-Phipps—her nephew and Bertie's cousin—plans to marry a … For a moment I thought of cabling Aunt Agatha to come over, but reason told me that this would be overdoing it. Bertie's formidable Aunt Agatha sends him on a mission to bring his cousin Gussie back to London. The name on the door was Abe Riesbitter, Vaudeville Agent, and from the other side of the door came the sound of many voices. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse.Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha is at her wit's end. 'Bertie, old man, it's all right. Take him for all in all, dear old Uncle Cuthbert was as willing a spender as ever called the family lawyer a bloodsucking vampire because he wouldn't let Uncle Cuthbert cut down the timber to raise another thousand. Aunt Julia sighed. Gussie has fallen in love with someone quite unsuitable in New York City. 'There's a sportsman there who mixes things he calls "lightning whizzers". Even though it was written in the 1900s, the main character was relatable and the plot had twists. cried Aunt Julia, and staggered against the sofa. The Mannering-Phippses were an old-established clan when William the Conqueror was a small boy going round with bare legs and a catapult. Aunt Julia gave a sort of gulp and looked at him. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse.Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha is at her wit's end. Aunt Julia was staring at him. People were bustling along as if it were some reasonable hour and not the grey dawn. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse. She stands high with him. ', 'Sorry, old man; perhaps New York doesn't agree with you. The girl did her act, and the house rose at her. He had some excellent letters of introduction, and when he wrote home to say that he had met the most charming and beautiful girl in the world I felt quite happy. I merely say that she routed me out of bed to listen to her painful story somewhere in the small hours. ', 'With luck,' I said, 'in about ten years.'. And the chappie said to Gussie, 'There you are!' Jeeves sits this one out, whilst taking a busman's holiday betting on the ponies at Ascot. "Extricating Young Gussie" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the first appearance of two of his most popular characters, the ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster. ', 'Well, Aunt Julia, you know, don't you know? 'Lizzun t' me,' he said again. Extricating Young Gussie . The Canterbury's a moving-picture house now, and the old Mogul runs French revues. It can't have been half past eleven when Jeeves, my man, woke me out of the dreamless and broke the news: I thought she must be walking in her sleep, but I crawled out of bed and got into a dressing-gown. She's an artist--', 'At the Auditorium just now. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse.Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha is at her wit's end. She is like a stage duchess. " Extricating Young Gussie " is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), being the first appearance of two of his most popular characters, the … There was the deuce of a rush for him, but Gussie had got away to a good start, and the rest of the singers, dancers, jugglers, acrobats, and refined sketch teams seemed to recognize that he had won the trick, for they ebbed back into their places again, and Gussie and I went into the inner room. "Extricating Young Gussie" marked the very first appearance of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, which explains the absence of the latter from the story. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster and Reginald Jeeves. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. I enjoyed this I enjoyed this short story very much. 'Bertie,' he said, 'I feel as if I were dreaming.'. But, Joe, you mustn't stand in the way of her marrying the man she's in love with. I want you still. ', 'You were in the small time once, Joe. Oh, Joe, you can't think how proud I was of him! The poor old nut looked at me in such a deuced cat-like way, standing with his mouth open, waiting to be congratulated, that I simply hadn't the heart to tell him that I knew all about that already, and had come over to the country for the express purpose of laying him a stymie. Answers: 2 on a question: From EXTRICATING YOUNG GUSSIE by P. G. Wodehouse She sprang it on me before breakfast. Extricating Young Gussie 1 First published in 1915, in The Saturday Evening Post (New York), this is the first Bertie story; it explains his residence in New York during the first four Jeeves stories, published in the early book we’re reading, My Man Jeeves. ', 'I thought as much. [2] It was included in the collection The Man with Two Left Feet (1917). “Extricating Young Gussie” Q&A. 'You lizzun t' me.'. Love his writing and his humor. I found him sitting on a box behind the stage, looking like one who had seen visions. James Mustich's 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die is bound to seriously expand that list... To see what your friends thought of this book. She bosses her sister-in-law, Gussie's mother. They didn't want to let her go. Extricating Young Gussie is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), being the first appearance of two of his most popular characters, the ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster.It was first published in the U.S. in the 18 September 1915 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, and in the UK in the January 1916 edition of The Strand Magazine. Beechwood requires a great deal of keeping up, and poor dear Spencer, though he does his best to help, has not unlimited resources. It was a shame to let all that run to seed, so to speak, in semi-darkness. He had a system of beating the bank at Monte Carlo which used to make the administration hang out the bunting and ring the joy-bells when he was sighted in the offing. ', 'Ah! With all the shenanigans of the upper class wrought to a delicious parody. 'Isn't she a wonder, Bertie?' So what Aunt Agatha would say--beyond saying that it was all my fault--when she learned the horrid news, it was beyond me to imagine. They have barmen, don't you know, in New York, not barmaids. Some very funny moments in this quaint little story with a fun twist at the end. A nearly transparent, faintly yellow, odorless, and almost tasteless glutinous substance obtained by boiling in water the ligaments, bones, skin, etc., of animals, and forming the basis of jellies, glues, and the like. ', 'What are you doing over here? She has an eye like a man-eating fish, and she has got moral suasion down to a fine point. I'll tell you the whole thing.'. It was first published in the United States in the 18 September 1915 issue of The Saturday Evening Post , and in the United Kingdom in the January 1916 edition of The Strand Magazine . Apparently there's something in the air, either the ozone or the phosphates or something, which makes you sit up and take notice. The lack of Jeeves definitely has a subduing effect, but Plumites will want to read this one just for its significance in the Wodehouse canon. They had never heard of you. The fact seemed to give it sacred associations for him. A sort of bally freedom, if you know what I mean, that gets into your blood and bucks you up, and makes you feel that--. She got straight to the point within five minutes of our meeting. The centenary has been commemorated with a flurry of articles (try What ho! 'No,' I wrote, 'stay where you are. (Found online free). The odd part of it was that after the first shock of seeing all this frightful energy the thing didn't seem so strange. But I did it, because I didn't want him to be ashamed of me, though all the time I was just aching to be back where I belonged.'. I was glad I had sent that cable to his mother. A kind of zip, as it were. Suppose we look in at the Auditorium for a few minutes.'. she said. * Wilton's Holiday A man invents a tragic love affair to get attention. I don't like to say such things of any aunt of mine, or I would go further and put it on record that she was giggling. PLAY. You can't lose your way. What this degraded performance may be I have not the least notion. At first poor old Gussie asked him to stop, but the chappie said, No, it was always done. You went off and married that--whatever that stage-door johnny's name was--and it broke me all up.'. he cried. I don't know what it is about America, but the broad fact is that it's not a place where you can call yourself Augustus Mannering-Phipps. 'Your husband's dead, your son's a pro. A sort of fate, what? Be the first to ask a question about Extricating Young Gussie. He sang this time as if nobody loved him. 'Hold me. 'So you will start at once, won't you, Bertie? For a moment old Danby stared at her, and then his mouth fell open and his eyebrows shot up like rockets. Made me laugh out loud --- mission accomplished :-). That was all very well, but it was a coincidence for all that. What happened now was that I began, as it were, to drink her in. "Extricating Young Gussie" features the first appearance of some of Wodehouse's most popular and enduring characters – valet extraordinaire Jeeves (whose role in this debut story is very small) and his master Bertie Wooster (whose surname is not actually mentioned). My experience is that when Aunt Agatha wants you to do a thing you do it, or else you find yourself wondering why those fellows in the olden days made such a fuss when they had trouble with the Spanish Inquisition. Mr Riesbitter mused for a moment and shelled the cuspidor with indirect fire over the edge of the desk. What on earth are you doing? 'We will now, if you don't mind, step a goodish way uptown.'. The effects of the restoratives supplied by my pal at the hotel bar were beginning to work off, and I felt a little weak. Who do you think was there? I was just going to close my eyes and try to forget till they put Gussie's name up when I discovered that I was sitting next to a deucedly pretty girl. I've always wanted you. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse. And old Danby, who usually looked like a cross between a Roman emperor and Napoleon Bonaparte in a bad temper, was behaving like a small boy. I had breakfast three hours ago, and have been walking in the park ever since, trying to compose my thoughts.'. Start by marking “Extricating Young Gussie” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Library loan. A complete change had taken place in the old lad. She had shed her _grande-dame_ manner completely, and was blushing and smiling. She lacks Aunt Agatha's punch, but in a quiet way she has always contrived to make me feel, from boyhood up, that I was a poor worm. Old Danby made a jump at her, and took her by the shoulders. Even now she's almost beautiful. Aunt Agatha is one of those strong-minded women. Where have you sprung from? On past performances this rang true. I'm told that way back in the nineties he only had two. In the midst of my agony I caught sight of Gussie. Last edited on 28 September 2018, at 20:45. You've got to come back, kid, where you belong.'. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. I mean, have you any important engagements in the next week or so? He got through the song somehow and limped off amidst roars of silence from the audience. I look round me, and everything seems to be absolutely corking. Revisiting a favorite childhood author. And you are going to America to stop him. She's my good angel, Bertie. ', 'It's rather a long story,' I said, 'and complicated. Now that I've got through the first show I shall be all right.'. Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha is at her wit's end. You feel a perfect ass. Gussie plans to be on stage and falls in love with a singer. Hot on the heels of the Blandings centenary in June comes the 100th anniversary of P.G. ', 'Gussie, old top,' I said, 'leave me for a while. On the Saturday and Sunday we practically lived in a beastly little music-room at the offices of the publishers whose songs he proposed to use. He is in New York, and I can't get at him. Highly recommended for Wodehouse and Bertie fans. I can't do better than that, and I wouldn't have done that if the little lady hadn't of kep' after me. It was one of those Western films, where the cowboy jumps on his horse and rides across country at a hundred and fifty miles an hour to escape the sheriff, not knowing, poor chump! By the time he reached the refrain I was nearly in tears. I had to watch myself every minute for years, and I never knew when I might fluff my lines or fall down on some bit of business. You know how wickedly extravagant your Uncle Cuthbert was.'. He was putting just the same zip into the thing now. ', GUSSIE (sticking to it): 'Waiting for me-e-ee! Do you remember my giving you a bag of buns when we were on the road at Bristol? When I came in she looked at me in that darn critical way that always makes me feel as if I had gelatine where my spine ought to be. Millions! Why did I hang about upstage while you sang "Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay"? He's that sort of chap. ', 'Well, you see, as I was telling you when Abe came in, Ray's father used to be in the profession. ', 'And as you say, idiotic gambling in low dens. ', 'You never ought to have married out of the profession, Julie. That's where I got my first shock. Nothing could tire that lad. Its a bit like reading the first asterix comic when the drawings by underzo were all over the place, but by the end of the book the style has settled into its familiar later form. The study was something terrible. Everybody seemed to be looking at me. ', 'Watch this act and tell me what you think of it. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in “Extricating Young Gussie,” a … 'Come back to the hotel, Gussie,' I said. Bertie's Aunt sends him to America to stop his cousin from making a fool of himself with a young girl on the stage. She was rather small, with great big eyes and a ripping smile. 'Pros,' he said, 'music-hall artistes, you know, waiting to see old Abe Riesbitter. ', 'I'll take it,' said Gussie, huskily. I have a pal who married Daisy Trimble of the Gaiety, and when I meet her now I feel like walking out of her presence backwards. 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