I have now added this new article. It introduces this important but never reprinted book and gives a synopsis of each if its fifteen stories. I’m working on getting the collection republished, but in the meantime this will give you a sense of the kinds of story it contains and of some similarities and differences from Love on the Dole.
Walter Greenwood and Arthur Wragg’s The Cleft Stick – an Introduction
Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole 
This wwas lovely to read
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Hello Cooper B – very pleased you enjoyed it. The article at the following url shows some of the illustrations which went with Greenwood’s Cleft Stick stories: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02666286.2020.1758882 .
-Best Chris.
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