The Road to Dumbiedykes 



fields and running brooks," and the 

 only tragedies likely to be enacted in 

 it are such as may attach to temporary 

 discomfitures in the game of golf. It 

 is, in brief, just a simple heart-shaped 

 hazard nicely calculated to punish a 

 "topped" tee shot on the fourth hole 

 of a great playground for tired city folk 

 that was once a beautiful farm pre- 

 sided over by an old brick house. 



Here have hundreds walked their 

 way into health and happiness, and 

 into all the joys that go with solid 

 friendships and congenial companion- 

 ships as they have tramped these allur- 

 ing links. And here, too, the name of 

 the old "heart" of unhappy memory 

 has become invested with a fairer 

 fame and atmosphere; let us say, 

 with some of the humanizing elements 

 that flow from the exercise of the simple 

 arts of love and service through the 

 employment of which iron bars in 

 Scotland were once thrown back at 

 the gentle touch of Jeanie Deans. 



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