Dancing the Maypole
“It offered various refreshments to undiscerning men too poor or blind to care that the tables hadn’t been wiped in years with anything other than the coat sleeves of its regular customers. Holding his small bowl of coffee Cosmo scanned the clumps of patrons. Old black tricorns and round hats were glamorised by the odd fashionable beaver bobbing up and down as the wearers laughed at some shared joke. All the noses drooping into their drinks were unfamiliar to him.
Moving to the back of the room,... Cosmo found an empty table with an abandoned broadsheet. Claiming it, he sat down and sipped the sickly black syrup as he looked to see whether any previous patron had carved his name into the grime. Yes, someone had recorded a visit in 1753 and years later in 1777. Resisting the temptation to scratch 1818, Cosmo picked up the broadsheet and stared unseeing at the advertisements, wedding announcements, hangings, and other social events. He couldn’t help wondering if the other men who’d shared the table’s history had been equally cursed with heartless families.MoreLess
Moving to the back of the room,... Cosmo found an empty table with an abandoned broadsheet. Claiming it, he sat down and sipped the sickly black syrup as he looked to see whether any previous patron had carved his name into the grime. Yes, someone had recorded a visit in 1753 and years later in 1777. Resisting the temptation to scratch 1818, Cosmo picked up the broadsheet and stared unseeing at the advertisements, wedding announcements, hangings, and other social events. He couldn’t help wondering if the other men who’d shared the table’s history had been equally cursed with heartless families.MoreLess
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