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ID
b98
Title
"The Captain."
Genre
Story
Page Count
17
Word Count
4000
Publication Year
1937
Topics
Boyhood, War, Sex, Pets, Violence

A story involving a cowed and resentful boy, a woman sympathetic to him, and her violent-tempered lover.

In Something Short and Sweet (1937), Country Tales (1940), Twenty Tales (1951), Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories (1989).