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- ID
- b103
- Title
- 'The Sow and Silas'
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 15
- Word Count
- 3700
- Publisher
- Argosy (UK)
- Sunday Dispatch
- Publication Year
- 1935
- Document Types
- Comic Fiction
- First-Person Narratives
- Character: Uncle Silas
- Topics
- Boyhood, Animals
A tale of a drunken Uncle Silas catching a loose sow in an embrace of 'intoxicated content'.
Published in:
- The Sunday Dispatch (September 15, 1935)
- Something Short and Sweet (1937)
- My Uncle Silas (1939)
- Selected Short Stories of H. E. Bates (1951)
- Argosy (September 1942, with the title 'Silas and the Sow')
- The Complete My Uncle Silas Stories (Bloomsbury ebook, 2016)
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