"A Great Day for Bonzo."

In a volume otherwise containing short nostalgic vignettes reflecting Bates's childhood, this novella-length piece is experimental in style.

The narrator recalls a day-long adventure with two other children, in which they unintentionally find themselves involved in an ugly domestic conflict, with overtones of death and tragedy.

A television adaptation (episode four in the 1974 series "Childhood") was directed by Michael Apted. In 1980 the BBC produced a radio adaptation featuring Percy Edwards and Patrick Barr.

In Woman's Journal (August 1956), Argosy (October 1957), The Watercress Girl and Other Stories (1959), A Party for the Girls (1988).