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- ID
- b186
- Title
- "The Bedfordshire Clanger."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 7
- Word Count
- 1960
- Publisher
- Argosy (UK)
- Publication Year
- 1949
- Document Types
- Comic Fiction
- First-Person Narratives
- Character: Uncle Silas
- Topics
- Sex
Returning to the very successful Uncle Silas character after ten years, Bates has Silas regaling his young nephew with a typical tall tale, this one involving a buxom landlady and poor grub, a pudding that is "hard as a hog's back" called the Bedfordshire Clanger, and a conclusion in which Silas keeps the landlady warm, "half-starve naked...in her nightshirt" and from then on is "never in want fur the nicest bit o' pudden in the world."
A dramatisation was apparently performed in Manchester, although no date or further information has been discovered.
Published in:
- Argosy (September 1949)
- Colonel Julian and Other Stories (1951)
- Sugar for the Horse (1957)
- The Best of H.E. Bates (1980)
- The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories (Bloomsbury ebook, 2016)
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