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- ID
- b241
- Title
- "The Foxes."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 10
- Word Count
- 2670
- Publisher
- Lilliput
- Publication Year
- 1957
- Document Types
- Comic Fiction
- First-Person Narratives
- Character: Uncle Silas
- Topics
- Religion
An Uncle Silas recollection, providing a forum for Bates's life-long dislike of the church (see also "The Fire Eaters"), involving a battle between Silas and a parson over a fox and the cleric's hens: "he wur always at me to git me to live it different.
Wanted to git me to reform...when a man's 'happy what sense is it a-trying to git 'im to start all over again and be miserable? 'Ithout they're miserable, some folks, they don't think they're good."
Published in:
- Lilliput (January 1957)
- Sugar for the Horse (1957)
- The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories (Bloomsbury ebook, 2016)
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