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- ID
- b128
- Title
- "A Silas Idyll."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 5
- Word Count
- 1550
- Publisher
- Argosy (UK)
- Auckland Star
- Publication Year
- 1939
- Document Types
- Comic Fiction
- First-Person Narratives
- Character: Uncle Silas
- Topics
- Boyhood
An escapade of the young Uncle Silas, master thatcher of barns and houses, stacks and lych-gates, in which he slips into a dressmakers shop and flirts with twenty girls while their supervisor is out.
The tale includes colourful touches related to thatching and dressmaking.
Published in:
- The Auckland Star (August 7, 1939, p. 15, with the title 'Roof-Top Idyll')
- My Uncle Silas (1939)
- Argosy (December 1942)
- Fair Stood the Wind for France Together with Two Short Stories (1971)
- The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories (Bloomsbury ebook, 2016)
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