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- ID
- b254
- Title
- "Source of the World."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 11
- Word Count
- 2750
- Publisher
- Evening News
- Publication Year
- 1955
- Topics
- Boyhood
Two boys explore the hills in search of the source of all the rivers, encounter a man with a glass eye, and head home feeling that it "was a wonderful day; he never forgot that day. To find a man with only one eye to cry with was a marvellous thing...Better even than finding the source of the world."
In the Evening News (October 7, 1955), The Watercress Girl (1959).
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