H.E. Bates Companion

An unintelligent woman slaves on behalf of her two boys, but when her husband is executed for murder the boys choose to live with her church-going brother. In Atlantic Monthly (March 1939), John O'London's Weekly (June 9, 1939), The Flying Goat (1939), Thirty-One Selected Tales (1947), Selected Short Stories of H.E. Bates (1951), Selected Stories (1957), Seven by Five/The Best of H.E. Bates (1963), The Good Corn and Other Stories (1974), The Poison Ladies and Other Stories (1976). Also in The Best Short Stories of 1939 (London: Cape, 1939), The Best British Short Stories (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939), Novel and Story, A Book of Modern Readings (1939), Modern Prose (1968).