"The Aunt and the Sluggard" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves.

He told me once that he could sit on a fence, watching a worm and wondering what on earth it was up to, for hours at a stretch.

In New York, Bertie is surprised to be woken by his friend Rockmetteller "Rocky" Todd, who normally lives quietly in the country.

Bertie goes to stay in a hotel, where he suffers without Jeeves, while Rocky endures going out to clubs with his aunt.

He tells Bertie that the letters were so exciting that she believes she had some kind of faith cure, which allowed her to travel to New York.

An example of this in "The Aunt and the Sluggard" occurs when Bertie is at the hotel missing Jeeves: "It was like what somebody or other wrote about the touch of a vanished hand" (from Tennyson's "The May Queen").

Another example occurs when Aunt Isabel arrives unexpectedly at Bertie's apartment: "The situation floored me.

[3] The contrast in Jeeves's and Bertie's diction leads to what Wodehouse scholar Kristin Thompson terms the "translation device".

[4] The title is a pun on Book of Proverbs 6:6 "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise."

Both of these names were derived from the popular "Midnight Frolics" at the New Amsterdam's Roof Garden theatre.

For example, in the My Man Jeeves version, one of the phrases in the poem by Rocky Todd which Bertie quotes is "With every muscle".

[11] "The Aunt and the Sluggard" was collected in the 1958 anthology The Saturday Evening Post Carnival of Humor, published by Prentice-Hall.