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ID
b268
Title
"Daughters of the Village."
Genre
Story
Page Count
8
Word Count
3300
Publisher
Argosy (UK)
Publication Year
1953

A rural tale in which women fieldworkers flirt with the tractor hand, featuring playfully suggestive dialect and dialogue.

In Argosy (August 1953, with title "Cherry Ripe"), Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal and Other Stories/The Enchantress and Other Stories (1961).