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The Bowl

Walter de la Mare

First published May 1923
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A boy is restless and unsympathetic about the way that everyone else in the house is preoccupied with a very sick baby. He is enthralled by a fancy bowl and convinces them to use it for the emergency baptism when the parson arrives; he feels that surely, then, the baby won't die.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1923 Cover The Riddle and Other Stories Selwyn & Blount Collection 157
1925 Cover Broomsticks and Other Tales Constable & Co. Ltd. Collection |10
1936 The Nap, and Other Stories Thomas Nelson & Sons Collection
1950 The Collected Tales of Walter de la Mare Alfred A. Knopf Collection 66
November 1996 Cover Short Stories 1895-1926 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection 87
July 2012 Cover Short Stories 1895-1926 Giles de la Mare Publishers Collection
October 2022 Cover L'enigma e altre storie Edizioni Hypnos Collection |9
October 2022 Cover L'enigma e altre storie Edizioni Hypnos Collection |9