H.E. Bates Companion

An escalating bragging match between Uncle Silas and Uncle Cosmos. Cosmos is modeled on Bates's paternal grandfather Charles Lawrence, who was "known about Rushden as a dapper and dashing figure who spent his holidays in the south of France, where he reputedly had a number of mistresses" (Baldwin 18). A television adaptation starring Albert Finney was aired in 2003. In the Daily Express (February 28, 1938), The Best Short Stories of 1938 (London: Cape, 1938), The Best British Short Stories, 1938 (1938), The Flying Goat (1939), My Uncle Silas (1939). Reprinted in Argosy (February, 1942).