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- ID
- b236a
- Title
- "Queenie White."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 12
- Word Count
- 3200
- Publisher
- Argosy (UK)
- Publication Year
- 1957
- Document Types
- Film & Television
- Comic Fiction
- First-Person Narratives
- Character: Uncle Silas
- Topics
- Marriage
A married woman does a "bunk" from her husband ("a mean, maungy, jealous man") for a day with Uncle Silas; he recollects their day at the beach, her refusal to return home, their "vacation" for the "best part of a fortnit," and the inevitable confrontation with the husband.
Attacking him "like a Irishman a-mowin' into a forty-acre field o' barley...and then when it wur all over she picked 'im up and dragged 'im off like a rabbit skin," Queenie "wur a free woman arter that. She wur boss arter that." Silas's advice in the end is "Mek the most on it while you can, boy...Take a tip from Silas—mek the most on it while you can."
A television adaptation starring Albert Finney was aired in 2001.
Published in:
- Argosy (January 1957)
- Sugar for the Horse (1957)
- H.E. Bates (1975)
- The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories (Bloomsbury ebook, 2016)
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