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- ID
- b92
- Title
- Italian Haircut
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 11
- Word Count
- 1670
- Publisher
- John O'London's Weekly
- Lilliput
- Short Story Magazine
- Publication Year
- 1936
- Document Types
- Comic Fiction
- First-Person Narratives
- Topics
- Barbers
A humorous telling of the narrator's experience with an Italian barber, replete with Italian-English dialogue and the application of an electric device, ointment, and spirits to the author's scalp.
In John O'London's Weekly (June 20, 1936), Something Short and Sweet (1937), Country Tales (1938), Country Tales (1940), Twenty Tales (1951), Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories (1989). Also in Lilliput (May, 1938). An appearance in Short Story Magazine (Australia, #39, 1947) was with the title "Haircut — Italian Style."
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