A.G Macdonnel’s Humorous Novel “England, their England”

It is an excerpt from A.G Macdonnels humorous novel England, their England. The English connection has been satirized in a light hearted manner especially what is known as Englishness , as seen from the eyes of a Scotsman. In this the author humorously describes a cricket match being played between manpower from England and men from Scotland in the village of Ford remnantan.The cricketers are petty businessmen or local anaesthetic shopkeepers.The story is presented in a mock epic style and rhetorical and bombastic language has been use to bring out this effect. The author has used humor as the main ingredient of the story. His description of the players, their style of playing, movements, and require is humorous. The story begins with the arrangements of Mr. Hodge who completed his tricky negotiations with the Fordendan caption. Just as the two players who were put to play for both sides went away in dismay, a motor auto arrived containing not only Mr. Hodges two defaulters bu t also a third gentlemen who swore stoutly that he had been invited by Mr. Hodge to play. Negotiations therefore had to be reopened.This fishy arrangement at the beginning of the story underlines the streak of humor which volition run throughout the story. The method of winning of winning the toss by Mr. Hodge is described in a humorous way.Mr.Hodge having won the toss by a system of his own founded upon the differential calculus and Copernican possibility.The bowling end of the ground was so steep that at the end stood a fielder who saw nothing saw nothing of the racy but the blacksmith walking back or running to bowl. It was only during the goal few yards of his run when the blacksmith was visible to the batsman. The blacksmith ran up to bowl climbing the side of meat superbly like a mettlesome combination of Venus and Vulcan Anadyomene.