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Aunt jaunt

In Competition No. 2339 you were invited to provide an extract from the diary of someone travelling with a memorable aunt.

It's odd that apart from Auntie BBC this relative is not traditionally conventional, respectable or even likeable. Autolycus sings of 'tumbling in the hay' with his 'aunts', Lear's Aunt Jobiska owns a 'runcible cat with crimson whiskers', and Charley's Aunt was from Brazil 'where the nuts come from'. Those two specialists in aunts, Wodehouse and Saki, did not paint them very attractively; whereas Wodehouse always names his, Saki often merely refers simply to 'the aunt' as if he were talking of the Devil. Greene's Aunt Augusta was something of a breath of fresh air on ...

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