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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).