Saki’s Purpose

I believe that Saki uses the aunt's story as a sorta old style of thinking. Teaching people a lesson however it doesn't make the story interesting and leave a hard impression on the children's mind. It might wbe a warnign or a showing of how old style of thinking and the new type of thinking. In the situation of don't, that is what mostly the adults say to a child. Don't do this, don't do that, is what most people or kids hear. It is heard often times to kids and they can get annoyed. The story and all these hintss is like a appeal for the author discussing the clash of the two thinkings. The bachelor answers the children's imagination with lots of discription, rather than shutting it down, he explains it and added another color or layer to his story.