 In Rudyard Kipling's 1926 short story "The Propagation of Knowledge" (later collected in "Debits and Credits" and "The Complete Stalky & Co."), some schoolboys discover the Baconian theory and profess to be adherents, infuriating their English master.In P. G. Wodehouse's story "The Reverent Wooing of Archibald", the dedicated "sock collector" Archibald Mulliner is told that Bacon wrote plays for Shakespeare.He remarks that it was "dashed decent of him", but suggests he may have only done it because he owed Shakespeare money.