Braid Vardon Bates, son of William Bates and Jane Packard Bates in Jane Gets off the Fairway, The Purification of Rodney Spelvin (where he is four and taking golf lessons from his aunt Anastatia), and Rodney Has a Relapse, where he is nine and training for the Children's Cup. In appearance a miniature edition of William, in soul and temperament a combination of the Dead End Kid and an army mule; freckled, hard-boiled.

• Jane Gets off the Fairway
• The Purification of Rodney Spelvin
• Rodney Has a Relapse