Cloudburst

A husband and wife vainly race to harvest their barley before a storm arrives; the crop ruined, the man lashes out at the woman over a trifle: 'His anger was impotent, useless. It was anger in reality not against her, but against the storm, the ruin'.

In John O'London's Weekly (August 15, 1936), Frontier and Midland (Summer, 1937), Something Short and Sweet (1937), Country Tales (1938), Country Tales (1940), Twenty Tales (1951). Also in The Best British Short Stories 1937 (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1937), Daily Express (January 26, 1938), Country Life (London: Macmillan, 1947).