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Uncle and Fred
* Cosmo Allegretti as Mr. Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose ( both of which he also created ), Dennis the Apprentice, Miss Frog, Mr. Whispers, Dancing Bear, Grandfather Clock, Uncle Ralph, was the voice of Aniforms puppet TV Fred ( a live-action on-screen puppet that appeared behind the blackboard in the Treasure House ), and was the artist behind the Magic Drawing Board.
* Pongo Twistleton, book character from P. G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred stories from the 1930s to 1960s
Among other relatives of Fred include: Giggles Flintstone, a rich, eccentric practical joker whose jokes drive Fred into a mad rage ; Uncle Tex, Fred's rich Texan uncle ; Tumbleweed ( who, strangely enough, resembles Uncle Tex ) and Mary Lou Jim, Fred's rich Texan cousins ; and Rocky Flintstone, Fred's grandfather, who was a veteran of Stone World War One.
At 10, Farmer's Uncle Fred, Aunt Helen, and cousin Muriel had come down to visit from New York.
On the way back, his father told him, " I had to tell that lie about your Uncle Fred.
It features the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime ( 1939 ).
Frederick Altamont Cornwalis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, known to all as Uncle Fred, is on the loose once again ( Lady Ickenham having decamped for a wedding in Trinidad ), and Reginald (" Pongo ") Twistleton, his long-suffering nephew ( and Drones Club member ) has every right to be petrified.
Uncle Fred has just arrived at Ashenden Manor, home of Sir Aylmer Bostock, Pongo's future father-in-law.
Uncle Fred sees these not as reverses, but as opportunities to show his stuff.
Unfortunately, the local Constable, Harold Potter, happens to have grown up with Major Plank ( and also happens to remember arresting Uncle Fred and Pongo at the dog races under the names of Edwin Smith of Nasturtium Road, East Dulwich ).
The story has also been adapted as a serial in six half-hour episodes for BBC Radio 4, starring Richard Briers as Uncle Fred and Hugh Grant as Pongo, with narration by Paul Eddington.
Uncle Fred and Pongo would return in Cocktail Time ( 1958 ) and Service With a Smile ( 1961 ).
Major Brabazon-Plank, later Major Plank, is a recurring fictional character from the Uncle Fred and Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a famed explorer who led an expedition up the Amazon but is afraid of babies.
Visiting Ashenden Manor, he finds Uncle Fred usurping his identity.
Uncle Fred and Major Plank were acquaintance in their young school days.
* Uncle Dynamite ( 1948 )-an Uncle Fred novel
Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, commonly known as Uncle Fred, is a fictional character who appears in short stories and novels written by P. G. Wodehouse between 1935 and 1961.
The Uncle Fred stories comprise one short and four novels, two of which are set at Blandings Castle:

Uncle and Springtime
* Uncle Fred in the Springtime ( 1939 )-a Blandings story
In Uncle Fred in the Springtime, when we next meet him, he cons slow-minded Lord Bosham of his wallet just for the sake of it, and heads merrily down to Blandings Castle in the guise of Sir Roderick Glossop, with Pongo taking the role of his nephew and secretary, Basil.
He buttles on quietly through Uncle Fred in the Springtime and Full Moon, but returns to the fore in Pigs Have Wings, where not only does he celebrate a birthday, but he is also called on once again to assist in the affairs of the Empress and her challengers, feeding one of Parsloe-Parsloe's pigs when it has been kidnapped by Galahad, and moving it when its location has been discovered by the enemy camp.
* Uncle Fred in the Springtime ( 1939 )
Unable to stay away, he returns again in Uncle Fred in the Springtime, where he is employed by the grouchy Duke of Dunstable, who visits the castle as a friend of Lady Constance.
Pongo Twistleton appears in the novels Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Uncle Dynamite, Cocktail Time, and Service With a Smile as well as in the short stories " Uncle Fred Flits By " and " Tried in the Furnace ".
* Uncle Fred in the Springtime ( 1939 )
During the events of Uncle Fred in the Springtime, he is impersonated by Lord Ickenham, who borrows his identity to take lodgings in Blandings so as to resolve a series of complications.
* Uncle Fred in the Springtime

Uncle and she
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
Perhaps, with my Uncle, she found a measure of economic security that she needed ; ;
`` You're gonna get caught '', she heard Joel say to Uncle Randolph by the pump one morning.
It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;
It is evident that Lizzie did not tell everything she overheard between her father and her Uncle Morse.
This officer had asked Lizzie if she suspected her Uncle Morse, and she replied she didn't think he did it because he left the house before the murders and returned after them.
As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.
The Brer Rabbit stories of Joel Chandler Harris had been family favourites and she later studied his Uncle Remus stories and illustrated them.
" In Greece she also appeared in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Strindberg's Father.
Long fascinated by Uncle Jack ’ s hitherto absent black sheep brother, she is predisposed to fall for Algernon in his role of Ernest -- whose name she ’ s particularly fond of.
* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.
The relationship between Crawford and Fairbanks, Sr. eventually warmed ; she called him " Uncle Doug " and he called her " Billie ".
Stowe had stated that her sons had wept when she first read them the scene of Uncle Tom's death, but after Baldwin's essay it ceased being respectable to accept the melodrama of the Uncle Tom story.
Stowe read the first edition of Henson's narrative and later confirmed that she had incorporated elements from it into Uncle Tom's Cabin.
After Stowe's death her son and grandson claimed she and Henson had met before Uncle Tom's Cabin was written, but the chronology does not hold up to scrutiny and she probably drew material only from his published autobiography.
In England, she dismisses Uncle Andrew as a mere dabbler in magic.

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