[Uncle Fred 02] • Oncle Dynamite

From boyhood his has been a gay and happy disposition, and in the autumn of his life he still retains the fresh, unspoiled mental outlook of a slightly inebriated undergraduate.

A keen matchmaker and intrepid impersonator, Lord Ickenham is in his element when at large on a sweetness-and-light-spreading excursion. On this occasion the hapless objects of his benevolence are his love-lorn nephew, Reginald ( ' Pongo' ) Twistleton, and Pongo's former crony, Bill Oakshott. Invariably a mixed blessing, this time the gleam in Uncle Dynamite's eye heralds trouble of a major kind...