The Incredibly Adventurous Island of the Blue Booted Bobbies[spoiler]George Stanley was a wealthy man of noble lineage who lived a plain, if not generally noble life in the quaint town of Penzance near the south western tip of England. By the time he had reached the age of eighteen, he had been schooled in all the necessities of a person of his station and was, at least in his own opinion, lacking in but one thing. It seems that in living an otherwise well but mediocre life of luxury he was generally and almost completely bored.
This is not exactly the perfect model of the ideal Englishman. At the age of eighteen, as a result of the death of her father, the great Queen of England, Queen Victoria rose to the throne some twelve years before George’s eighteenth birthday. Unfortunately, his chances of ascending to a position of power because of the death of his father seemed extremely remote, seeing that his father was in no real position of power and in no condition of dying anytime soon.
The horrible thought of continuing his education in the otherwise normal but rather dull halls of a university was put aside from a brief but small advertisement he saw in the local newspaper. Gold, it was claimed, had been found in some distant place called “California.” He had no idea what a “California” was of for that matter, where it was, but if there was gold to be found, it should be found by a proper Englishman.[/spoiler]
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