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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).