148 THE CO^MPLETE SPORTSMAN 



Lowland golf-courses who paint a large human 

 eye upon their golf-ball, and have it teed up in 

 such a way that it glares upon the player with 

 a passionate intensity which makes it almost 

 impossible for him to look away. 



This may be satisfactory enough on the tee; 

 unfortunately, the painted eye mil not always 

 remain uppermost when once the ball is in play, 

 and it becomes a difficult matter to negotiate a 

 successful approach shot wdth a ball that is 

 either gazing invitingly into an impending 

 hazard or seems to be winking sardonically at 

 one from the " rough." 



The late Lord Chorlesbury always used a ball 

 of this kind, and I shall never forget the panic 

 that ensued among the nurses and children 

 who spend their days on the beach to the 

 right of the third tee at North Bermck 

 when what appeared to be a gigantic human 

 (or, as some of them thought, Divine) eye 

 fell in their midst from the blue vault of heaven 

 above. 



Two French governesses, professed atheists, 

 who happened to be bathing in the sea, and were 

 at the same time engaged in a theological dis- 

 cussion in which they ridiculed the alleged im- 

 manence of a Supreme Being, were converted 

 then and there to a mild form of agnosticism, 

 and reluctantly admitted the plausibility of 



