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ID
b276
Title
"The Trespasser."
Genre
Story
Page Count
16
Word Count
5000
Publisher
Argosy (UK)
Saturday Evening Post
Publication Year
1962
Document Types
Comic Fiction
First-Person Narratives
Topics
Marriage

A comic piece involving a near-sighted and eccentric spinster, a widower "who looked not at all unlike a round fresh radish," and a young man who watches with some disgust as his aunt orchestrates the seduction of her future husband.

In The Saturday Evening Post (February 10, 1962, with title "Trespassers Beware"), Argosy (August 1962), The Fabulous Mrs. V (1964), Elephant's Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories (1989).