V. 

 RETIRED GOLF 



1. 



It has been roughly estimated by competent 

 statisticians that within comparatively recent 

 times the game of golf has increased the cost of 

 the State pension list by an annual sum of not 

 less than £200,000. Before the Scottish national 

 pastime had attained its present almost uni- 

 versal popularity, it was the fashion for super- 

 annuated officials who were past their work to 

 betake themselves to cheerless villas in the 

 neighbourhood of Camberley or Canterbury, 

 where they strove to mitigate the tedium of a 

 miserable existence of enforced leisure by 

 writing violent letters to the new^spapers to 

 complain of the decadence of their native land. 

 Veteran Civil Servants spent the evenings of 

 their lives giving the dog a run in a suburban 

 lane, or tricycling to the local post-office to 

 inquire if there were any letters for Pondicherry 

 Lodge or The Chestnuts. Retired Major- 

 Generals were compelled to simulate a fictitious 



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