A Girl Called Jake by Iain Fraser Grigor

Author:Iain Fraser Grigor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: scotland, colonialism, colonialist, coke, cocaine, private, acid, aborigines, testudo, ecstasy
ISBN: 9781849892599
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2010
Published: 2011-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

A Brown Bear Dances

In the wider world of public affairs, the deteriorating situation in Hussaria continued to draw attention and divert energy from matters of - let us be frank - greater importance. But the public, so well meaning and yet so often ill-informed, insisted on making its voice heard, despite the quite properly responsible refusal of the governing authorities to issue any sort of statement on that sad, small and distant place which was - again, let us be frank - the author of so much of its own misfortune.

Throughout the land, therefore, crowds appropriate to the size of the settlement in which they congregated massed and marched and cried for that statement. In the Capital and City Two, huge demonstrations thronged the streets and avenues, waving overhead the keys of their cars and homes; happy, peaceful multitudes in spirit - but urged on from the rear by dangerous agitators bent on an improper extension of the responsibilities of the governing authorities into the realms of foreign affairs. All thoughtful people knew where this might lead - and did they not have the very example of Hussaria to remind them on a daily basis?

But still, in greater and greater numbers, the masses marched, crying their slogans: and when their attentions came at length to focus on the person of the Pantishah himself, the very security of devolved small-nation authority came under implicit attack.

First they cried in fatuous amity “Pantishah, Pantishah, who on earth do you think you are?”: and though some rougher elements of the crowds somewhat adapted those words, this practice did not become universal.

They cried too - indeed, this was for a time their favourite slogan -

Ho Ha

Pantishah

Free Free

Hussaria -

- a million voices at a time, each syllable of the first two lines hurled from one section of the multitude to the next, and the remaining lines roared together, time and time and time again.

There were many such others, and in time the governing authorities and their influential friends began to worry as to where matters might soon lead. Major Gweene’s rising was therefore extended across the land and, though it did not yet take the major cities, it surrounded them with its peace-keeping forces and the advisory resources of personnel and material assigned to it by the neighbouring great power.

Crisis was reached when the rumour flew around the land that the nerve of the Pantishah and his advisers had cracked, and that a statement on Hussaria was at last imminent. Almost at once, exercises began on the coast of amphibious forces, and fleets of fighter-bombers swooped and swept the urban skies. It was even rumoured - though the suggestion was denied and no independent evidence confirmed the rumour, which may have been circulated by agitators and political enemies - that at one point the Pantishah and his councillors were summoned to the nearest airport, while the representatives of the neighbouring great power awaited their coming from the giant bomber that circled overhead.

It will never now be

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