Don't tell Pongo about strange uncles

          "Mr. Davenport has been entertaining his uncle, the Duke of Dunstable, to luncheon, and over coffee His Grace broke most of the sitting-room furniture with a poker."

          To say that this information surprised Pongo would be correct. To say that he was astounded, however, would be going to far. His Uncle Alaric's eccentricities were a favourite theme of conversation with Horace Davenport, and in Pongo he had always found a sympathetic confidant, for Pongo had an eccentric uncle himself [the Earl of Ickenham]. Though hearing Horace speak of his Uncle Alaric and thinking of his own Uncle Fred, he felt like Noah listening to someone making a fuss about a drizzle.

(from Uncle Fred in the Springtime, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)