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- ID
- b31
- Title
- 'A Tinker's Donkey'
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 6
- Word Count
- 1300
- Publisher
- Argosy (UK)
- Manchester Guardian
- Singapore Free Press
- Publication Year
- 1928
- Document Types
- Comic Fiction
- Topics
- Animals, Marriage
A comic piece involving a simple tinker, his caustic wife, and a donkey whose damage to a neighboring field results in a court summons.
In the Manchester Guardian (November 9, 1928), Singapore Free Press, (December 18, 1928), Seven Tales and Alexander (1929), Thirty Tales (1934), Twenty Tales (1951). Reprinted in Stories for Girls (London: Faber, 1938), Argosy (October, 1934).
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