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Who wrote the childhood/boxing short story "The Rudiments?"?
Update: I don't think Scarry wrote the original story, although he did use it in his bedtime stories book. Still looking for an answer; I recall reading the original long ago, and it was longer and more detailed than Scarry's short summary of it.
1 Answer
- 7 years ago
Richard Scarry- 365 Bedtime Stories compendium- (a boy is bullied in the schoolyard and goes home to his father. His father, knowing how the rules of the schoolyard go, teaches his son the rudiments of boxing. Later on, the bully returns to the boy and gets a bloodied nose for his efforts. They make up afterwards and become schoolyard friends.)
