Old Bob Snooker
The People, Sunday 29 January, 1905
PERFECT CURES.
“We all felt sorry for poor Snooker —yon see, he was rather a big favourite with us boys down at the local club, and he was one of the jolliest chaps I had ever met till he developed dyspepsia.” The narrator of Snooker’s misfortune paused at this moment to conduct the delicate operation of knocking off nearly three inches of the special club brand of cigar ho bad been smoking before resuming his story of Snooker’s misfortunes.
“I think old Bob Snooker would have been all right—I mean if he had been left alone to get over his dyspepsia the best way he could. …