Bingo and the Little Woman Bingo and the Little Woman "Bingo and the Little Woman" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in "The Strand Magazine" in London in November 1922, and then in "Cosmopolitan" in New York in December 1922. The story was also included in the collection "The Inimitable Jeeves" as two separate stories, "Bingo and the Little Woman" and "All's Well". In the story, Bingo Little, who wishes to marry a waitress and wants his uncle's approval, asks Bertie to once again pretend to be the
Little Boy Blue but the rhyme may be much older. It may be alluded to in Shakespeare's King Lear (III, vi) when Edgar, masquerading as Mad Tom, says: <poem>Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepheard? And for one blast of thy minikin mouth It has been argued that Little Boy Blue was intended to represent Cardinal Wolsey, who was the son of an Ipswich butcher, who may have acted as a hayward to his father's livestock, but there is no corroborative evidence to support this assertion. Boy Blue, until issue 81, was one of the main characters of the long-running comic book series "Fables".