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- ID
- b240
- Title
- "The Blue Feather."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 14
- Word Count
- 3950
- Publication Year
- 1957
- Document Types
- Film & Television
- Comic Fiction
- First-Person Narratives
- Character: Uncle Silas
- Topics
- Poaching
A long Uncle Silas tale, in which Silas recalls being caught poaching at the Castle Hanwick, and his subsequent adventures with the crazed woman of the house; refusing to get his cap from under her bed sheets, he is faced by the woman "starve naked, with a double-barrel gun in her hands."
"Not long arter that they took her away, poor gal...She'd been away afore, but I never knowed."
A television adaptation starring Albert Finney was aired in 2001.
Published in:
- Sugar for the Horse (1957)
- The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories (Bloomsbury ebook, 2016)
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