ON THE LINKS 117 



The links can be very attractive on a July day. 

 They are warm, but not so hot as the sand ; their 

 green covering keeps them pleasantly cool. No 

 glare rests upon them. Mark oat a little patch, 

 and you will see the reason why. Look at the 

 countless lights and shadows, due to the grass 

 blades, to every lit blade a shadow : the intenser 

 the light, so much sharper the contrast and darker 

 the shadow. 



With this miniature as guide, glance over the 

 whole, and see how mystic lovely it is. You 

 hardly know whether to describe the effect 

 as shaded light or lit shadow. Under the 

 mounds the shadows gather ; toward their tops the 

 light increases. From the woods to the links, 

 the change seems greater than it is. In the one 

 the shadows are massed, well marked, sometimes 

 almost unbroken ; here they are in fairy lines and 

 panicles. 



Not only is there light, but colour as well. Now 

 we have mass, more than in the woods. The colour 

 is inlaid on the green. From a little distance it 

 seems a glow rather than a growth, born of the 

 air and not of the earth a reflection from above 

 rather than a flower bank. This is due to the 

 shortness of the stem, scarcely sufficient to raise 



