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* In [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s short story ''Helping Freddie'' (later rewritten for the ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' series as "Fixing It for Freddie"), a young [[Upper Class Twit]] comes up with a [[Zany Scheme]] to [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|help his friend Freddie]], whose fianceé has broken up with him. He kidnaps a small boy who he thinks is the fianceé's cousin, intending for Freddie to bring the kid home and play the hero. Then the boy turns out to be unrelated to the fianceé, and [[Comedic Hero|our hero]] is stuck with him for the rest of the story.
{{quote|''By Jove, you know, till I started to tramp the place with this infernal kid, I never had a notion it would have been so deuced difficult to restore a child to its anxious parents. It's a mystery to me how kidnappers ever get caught.''}}
* ''Snatch'' by Rennie Airth, published in 1969, is about kidnapping the infant son of a millionaire. Alas, not only is the baby an unpleasant handful, but as a tactic to delay the realization that he'd been abducted, the kidnappers substituted an orphan they'd picked up. The unscrupulous tycoon feels the cheerful little orphan is a '''much''' more satisfying son than his actual offspring, so [[You Can Keep Her|he has no intention of paying the hapless crooks '''anything''']].
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