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The Aunt and the Sluggard

AuthorP.G. Wodehouse

NarratorMartin Jarvis

Duration46m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Short Stories, Humour and Comedy

PublisherCSA Word

VersionUnabridged

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Rockmetteler (Rocky) Todd, one of the laziest people in America, visits Wooster and Jeeves in New York for their advice. Rocky's aunt has written him a letter informing him that she will give him a large monthly allowance on the condition that he visits all the clubs and retaurants and lives life to the full as she would have done had she been much younger. The condition however is that he must write to her at least one long letter a week giving her full details of his life 'in the fast lane'! Rocky however hates New York and clubs and reataurants so Jeeves puts his thinking cap on and comes up with an idea to keep them all happy.or will it?

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