New Walks in Old Ways 



artificial lake. In the third place, 

 they all know by this time that I am 

 just as fond of that water as they are, 

 and can commonly count for certain, 

 when I pull out my mashie in front of 

 this reservoir, upon being given an 

 opportunity to indulge their aquatic 

 instincts. I do not often disappoint 

 them. I may lose my golf match, but 

 I not only please the caddies for two 

 or three of them always jump into the 

 boat, unless "called down" for so 

 doing, to render the service which one 

 could do just as well alone but at the 

 same time delight my opponent, who 

 has already played a pretty shot from 

 the same teeing ground over the water 

 onto the green, and has a sure "three" 

 and a possible "two" to win the hole; 

 whereas he knows that I cannot pos- 

 sibly get out of the water and land my 

 own ball in the cup under four or five 

 or six, according to what further diffi- 

 culties may be encountered on the way. 

 There are cat-tails, too, growing at the 



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