In which the Little Nugget is introduced to the reader and plans are made for his future by several interested parties.
And it is when the Little Nugget, alias thirteen-year-old Ogden Ford, 'bulgy, rude, chain-smoking son of an American millionaire', arrives at Sanstead House School that the fun begins. Mr Peter Burns, a none-too-dedicated school-master, engaged by snobbish Mr Abney to educate his hand-picked pupils, soon finds himself and his enraptured class at the mercy of an American gunman ... and at the beginning of a series of truly mind-boggling adventures in a Wodehouse tale of suspense, excitement and romance.