"The Sow and Silas."
A tale of a drunken Uncle Silas catching a loose sow in an embrace of "intoxicated content." In the Sunday Dispatch (September 15, 1935), Something Short and Sweet (1937), My Uncle Silas (1939), Selected Short Stories of H. E. Bates (1951). Reprinted in Argosy (September 1942) with the title "Silas and the Sow."
ID:
b103
Title:
"The Sow and Silas."
Genre:
Story
Page Count:
15
Word Count:
ca. 3700
Publisher:
Argosy
Sunday Dispatch
Year of Publication:
1935
Topic:
Animals
Boyhood
Document Type:
Comic Fiction
First-Person Narratives
Uncle Silas Stories