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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
Published in:
- The Yorkshire Post (December 24, 1936, p. 6, with the title 'The Christmas Shooting Party')
- The Daily Express (December 31, 1937, p. 4)
- My Uncle Silas (1939)
- The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories (Bloomsbury ebook, 2016)
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