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Advantages: Charming, easy read, gentle humour
Disadvantages: None (unless the above is not to your taste)

In Bates’ own preface to this collection of short stories he confirms that Uncle Silas truly existed in the shape of one Joseph Betts “born at the very beginning of the Hungry ’Forties, brought up to a church in which the serpent was sti ...

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