"The Foxes."

An Uncle Silas recollection, providing a forum for Bates's life-long dislike of the church (see also "The Fire Eaters"), involving a battle between Silas and a parson over a fox and the cleric's hens: "he wur always at me to git me to live it different. Wanted to git me to reform...when a man's 'happy what sense is it a-trying to git 'im to start all over again and be miserable? 'Ithout they're miserable, some folks, they don't think they're good." In Lilliput (January 1957), Sugar for the Horse (1957).

ID: 
b241
Title: 
"The Foxes."
Genre: 
Story
Page Count: 
10
Word Count: 
ca. 2670
Publisher: 
Lilliput
Year of Publication: 
1957
Topic: 
Religion
Document Type: 
Comic Fiction
First-Person Narratives
Uncle Silas Stories