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ID
b124
Title
"The Shooting Party."
Genre
Story
Page Count
8
Word Count
2630
Publisher
Daily Express
Yorkshire Post
Publication Year
1936
Document Types
Comic Fiction
First-Person Narratives
Character: Uncle Silas

One New Year's Eve, Uncle Silas and his hunting buddy, Sammy Twiggle, drink four bottles of wine and go in search of pheasants, eventually shooting a turkey and nearly killing Sammy.

The first known printed version of this tale was titled 'The Christmas Shooting Party' with the events taking place on Christmas Eve, a rare case of evidence that Bates altered a story after its first publication

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