The Aunt and the Sluggard

"The Aunt and the Sluggard"
Short story by P. G. Wodehouse
1916 Strand illustration by Alfred Leete
Language	English
Genre(s)	Comedy
Publication
Publisher	Saturday Evening Post (US) Strand (UK)
Media type	Print (Magazine)
Publication date	22 April 1916 (US) August 1916 (UK)
Chronology
Series	Jeeves
Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg   The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy

"The Aunt and the Sluggard" 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 Saturday Evening Post in the United States in April 1916, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in August 1916. The story was also included in the 1925 collection Carry On, Jeeves.^[1]

In the story, Bertie's friend Rocky, a reclusive poet who dislikes city life, needs help from Bertie and Jeeves when he is instructed by his aunt to go to exciting parties in New York and write letters to her about them.