Uncollected Short Stories in the Cave

[Kate Mary]

The sheer volume of this uncollected material is incredible and we are so lucky that Tony is prepared to work so hard to share it with us. Thank you.

I decided to have a look through the Teacher's World entries from the beginning, unfortunately, the first story (issue 885) has a chunk of text missing, sorry to nit-pick, Tony, but I thought you would like to know!

Kate.

[Tony Summerfield]

Thanks for pointing that out, Kate, I can't think how it happened. I do most certainly like to have any problems pointed out and I will correct them as quickly as possible - Peronel is already complete!

[Anita Bensoussane]

When I saw the story 'The Little Princess' I started wondering how many other Blyton short stories have the titles of other authors' books! I can think of another Blyton short story by the same author, 'The Secret Garden' - I am sure someone will come up with others.

I haven't yet had time to read these stories (though I'm looking forward to doing so), except one - 'The Wonderful Garden', Teachers World 1828. It's a simple, fable-like story. The reason I chose to read that tale is that The Wonderful Garden is also the title of a full-length children's book by E. Nesbit!

We had a thread about "borrowed" titles once before, in which you mentioned 'Little Black Sambo', Tony:

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[Julie2owlsdene]

The first little story I chose to read was the Very Naughty Little Dog. Nice little story, and one Enid seems to favour about having to leave home because of no money and finding a hidden teasure. In this case the dog found it, buy not very pleased that Enid writes the dog was whipped and tied up, because of it digging.

It would have been more pleasing for the dog to be scolded or something! Made me wonder whether Enid did this to any of her dogs!!

[Tony Summerfield]

I'm afraid that there are only seven new uncollected stories today as I ran into a few problems. TW 1702 The Green Goblin was possibly the worst and it shows what effect sellotape can have on something 70 years later! I am not going to own up as to how long it took me to clean this so that it was fit for the Cave!



My advice would be never to use it on books or dustwrappers. Today's stories are:-

TW 1420 A True Dog Story
TW 1649 The Strange Old Man
TW 1664 The Gull That Remembered
TW 1702 The Green Goblin
TW 1721 An Egg for Gillian
TW 1733 The Stolen Eggs
TW 1893 Gillian’s Kite

At least there is another dog one for Julie!

[Julie2owlsdene]

These are lovely little stories. It makes you wonder how Enid could have so many inside her head?

The True dog Story, was lovely, but I am now wondering what did happen to that little dog. And what also puzzled me was when the boy said it didn't have a Tailwagger medal with a number on? Was that some sort of award??

Gillian's Kite was lovely the way Enid had the kite describing all it saw. Enid was a true story teller for children.

You did a good job of the Green Goblin, Tony. There was no trace that I could see of the sellotape marks.

[Tony Summerfield]

I took a day off yesterday, but I am back to my scanner again today and here are another ten uncollected short stories for anyone interested.

TW 1581 The Strange Spell
TW 1597 Poor Mr. Tumpy
TW 1605 Mrs. Wimple’s Trick
TW 1612 The Little Germander Birds
TW 1819 The Brown Rat and the Wren
TW 1829 Keep Your Eyes Open!
TW 1830 The Old Brown Toad
TW 1831 The Unlucky Little Boy
TW 1832 Brer Rabbit and the Pimmerley Plums
TW 1834 The Tale of Pitapat

[Julie2owlsdene]

The Tale of Pitapat was a lovely little tale. I wonder whether it was true, that Enid took one of her Siamese cats on holiday and it wondered off. If so she was very lucky to have found it.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Just read 'The Green Goblin' and 'The Germander Birds', the first being a humorous story about a Maths-based spell and the second being a sweet little fairytale which draws attention to an aspect of the natural world. Lovely to be able to read these uncollected stories.

[Moonraker]

You did a good job of the Green Goblin, Tony. There was no trace that I could see of the sellotape marks.

I would think that Tony is mighty pleased about that, after spending hours on the task!

[Tony Summerfield]

I haven't done much with updates recently, but I have been adding to the Periodical section of the Cave on a daily basis and there are now over a thousand items illustrated. There are 113 uncollected Teachers World short stories as well as over 100 uncollected poems, many with Phyllis Chase illustrations. I won't list the poems, but for those who don't want to plough through every page, the following short stories are now available:-

TW 0885 Peronel and His Pot of Glue
TW 0890 Dan’s Magic Gold
TW 0895 The Making of Merriden Major
TW 0907 The Rabbit With a Gold Tail
TW 0956 The Legend of the Lilies
TW 0972 Oriell’s Mistake
TW 0973 The Queen’s Goldfish
TW 0976 The Nightingale
TW 0977 Sixty Rosebuds
TW 0986 The Wicked Witch
TW 0988 Longear’s Mistake
TW 0991 Foolish Caryll
TW 0993 Peter and Pippitty
TW 0994 The Little White Donkey
TW 0997 The Proud Chamberlain
TW 0999 The Conceited Prince
TW 1003 Fairy’s Love
TW 1007 Bimbo the Stupid
TW 1009 The Unlucky Gnome
TW 1012 Little Miss Muffit
TW 1014 Little Jack Horner
TW 1016 Humpty Dumpty
TW 1019 The Cat Who Went to See the Queen
TW 1021 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
TW 1024 Ride a Cock-Horse
TW 1026 Dickery, Dickery Dock
TW 1030 Sing a Song of Sixpence
TW 1031 Three Blind Mice
TW 1033 A Day in a Dog’s Life
TW 1033 A Midnight Adventure
TW 1033 Hidden Treasure
TW 1033 What Happened to Mary
TW 1033 Fred’s Chance
TW 1033 One-Legged Jim
TW 1033 Lost Betty
TW 1033 Smuggler’s Cave
TW 1035 The Tramp and the Boys
TW 1037 Betty and Her Eggs
TW 1040 The Boy Without Shoes
TW 1043 A Stupid Quarrel
TW 1087 Fairy Easter Eggs
TW 1135 The Golden Promise
TW 1140 Lost—A Robin Called Sing-a-Song
TW 1145 The Story of Dilly and Daffo
TW 1150 The Giant’s Easter Egg
TW 1156 Builders of the Empire
TW 1159 The Sunset Fairies
TW 1164 The Red Imps
TW 1167 The Storm Fairies Get Into Mischief
TW 1175 Peeko’s Prank
TW 1186 Roundy and the Keys
TW 1250 Rescuing Santa Claus
TW 1369 The Spider-Maiden
TW 1371 The Pixie Painter
TW 1376 The Sun-Flower Girl
TW 1380 The Sneeze
TW 1399 The Very Naughty Dog
TW 1413 The Little Princess
TW 1420 A True Dog Story
TW 1433 Old Mother Grumps
TW 1446 Mr Twinkle’s Handkerchief
TW 1463 The Kind Ploughman
TW 1468 untitled
TW 1472 Mr. Very-Smart
TW 1524 Mr Stamp-About
TW 1581 The Strange Spell
TW 1597 Poor Mr. Tumpy
TW 1605 Mrs. Wimple’s Trick
TW 1607 The High-and-Mighty Frog
TW 1610 The King’s Treasure
TW 1612 The Little Germander Birds
TW 1619 The Beautiful Tail
TW 1629 The Dreadful Spelling Mistake
TW 1649 The Strange Old Man
TW 1664 The Gull That Remembered
TW 1672 A Very Little Thing
TW 1687 The Old, Wise Woman
TW 1702 The Green Goblin
TW 1717 Spindleshanks
TW 1721 An Egg for Gillian
TW 1726 The Tail of the Donkey
TW 1728 Old Benny Biggles
TW 1733 The Stolen Eggs
TW 1739 The Boy Who Wouldn’t Work
TW 1743 The Toad and the Spider
TW 1774 The Boy Who Wouldn’t Read
TW 1776 The Strange Spell
TW 1808 The Two Boys
TW 1819 The Brown Rat and the Wren
TW 1820 The First Swallow
TW 1824 The Domino Brownie
TW 1828 The Wonderful Garden
TW 1829 Keep Your Eyes Open!
TW 1830 The Old Brown Toad
TW 1831 The Unlucky Little Boy
TW 1832 Brer Rabbit and the Pimmerley Plums
TW 1833 Tickets for the Circus
TW 1834 The Tale of Pitapat
TW 1839 The Two Families
TW 1845 The Plumed Moth
TW 1853 When Peter Stayed In
TW 1867 The Boy Who Cheated
TW 1868 Tit for Tat!
TW 1871 The Beautiful Easter Egg
TW 1878 The Prizegiving Day
TW 1879 What the Weathercock Sees
TW 1881 Cosy is Lost
TW 1882 The Three Jackdaws
TW 1884 Frog-Rain
TW 1887 The Bear in the Cave
TW 1890 The Lost Shilling
TW 1891 The Lazy Little Girl
TW 1893 Gillian’s Kite

[Moonraker]

Oh happy days! Can't wait to get my teeth into those little beauties! However, I am probably being ever so thick, but how do you find them? I've searched using the ref number, but nothing found.

Edit:
I don't know what I did, but suddenly Peronel and his Pot of Glue has appeared!

[Timmylover]

Ah verily, the Cave is a wondrous thing.

Much appreciated, Tony.

[Julie2owlsdene]

I've just checked out numbers 1033 containing 8 little starter stories with to be finished at the end of them. Are these stories that Enid started and meant to finish but never got around to it, Tony. Or did she just start them as an idea, do you know?

[Tony Summerfield]

I'm afraid that I can't link them all, Nigel! Go into the Cave, go to Periodicals and then click on Teachers World and you will see all the numbers down the side of the page.

Julie, they are deliberately unfinished in a similar manner to Tales Half Told in Nelson's Reading practice series, where Enid started stories for children (or even big children like Julie - okay scratch the word 'big' ) to finish. I am sure it would produce some imaginative results!