"The Good Corn."

A tale of a childless farming couple, the wife's emotional breakdown at the death of a calf, the husband's weakness in sleeping with a hired girl, and their loving reconciliation as they adopt her baby.

A typescript (pp. 19) is held at the Museum of the English Rural Life at the University of Reading (https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-...).

In Argosy (October 1955), The Daffodil Sky (1955), Seven by Five/The Best of H.E. Bates (1963), The Good Corn and Other Stories (1974).