H.E. Bates Companion

In the full-moonlight barley harvest, a boy of nine and girl of fourteen explore both the countryside and their emotions, she with an awakening sexuality and he not yet interested. The boy's name of Alexander connects the piece to Bates's early work called "Alexander," the later "The White Pony", and to Bates's childhood. In the New Statesman and Nation (January 20, 1934), Frontier and Midland (May 1934), Cut and Come Again (1935), Country Tales (1938), Country Tales (1940), Selected Stories (1957), The Poison Ladies and Other Stories (1976). Reprinted in the Courier (October 1948).