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- ID
- b80
- Title
- Waiting Room
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 10
- Word Count
- 2090
- Publisher
- New Statesman and Nation
- Publication Year
- 1934
- Document Types
- Comic Fiction
- First-Person Narratives
- Topics
- Boyhood
Narrated by a boy accompanying his injured brother, this comic skit involves various patients and nurses in a hospital waiting room.
In the New Statesman and Nation (October 13, 1934), Cut and Come Again (1935), Country Tales (1938), Country Tales (1940), Selected Short Stories of H.E. Bates (1951). Reprinted in Here and Now (1972).
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