The Unreformed Kingdom by Tom Anderson

Author:Tom Anderson [Anderson, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SF, RO:SF
Publisher: Sea Lion Press
Published: 2015-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

I don’t think the Consul was particularly a fanatic of the game himself, but he had been invited that year to present prizes. This year the Higgins Cup, named for a masterful Ulster player of the game, was won by a local man named Bean. His victory speech was memorable, I just wish I’d been able to understand it. It certainly sounded quite Radical in tone when he ranted about ‘They thought when I went out there I’d be dead, but I can stand! I can stand! For England!’ Despite this and his Irish Christian name, the Corporation of Sheffield, Cutlers’ Guild and other establishment representatives seemed to like him. Either billiards is a game that brings social classes together, or they couldn’t understand him, either…

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