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- ID
- b296
- Title
- "A Teetotal Tale."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 8
- Word Count
- 1900
- Publisher
- Argosy (UK)
- Weekend
- Publication Year
- 1961
- Document Types
- Comic Fiction
- First-Person Narratives
- Character: Uncle Silas
While "de-flowering the golden-fingered heads" of cowslips for wine, Uncle Silas tells his nephew of trying to go off alcohol for "prit near two months" in an effort to win a beautiful girl.
Failing, he comes to say goodbye, only to find himself enjoying the company of her equally lovely mother: "We come to a sort of pact. I said I'd keep Ma from being too lonely fur a night or two if she'd leave me alone now and then with the gal.
Published in:
- Argosy (January 1961, with the title "Silas on the Wagon")
- The Wedding Party (1965)
- Weekend (Summer 1978, with the title "Silas on the Wagon")
- The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories (Bloomsbury ebook, 2016)
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