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so unpopular among his fellows, for his rage 

 at being laid a stymie by himself was mitigated 

 by his feelings of joy at having laid himself a 

 stymie; and whenever his '' Silver King " 

 rolled into a bunker, he found comfort in the 

 fact that his " Colonel " was lying safely on the 

 " pretty," or vice versa. Furthermore, he was 

 enabled to invest the game with a spice of in- 

 expensive adventure by laying a small shade of 

 odds against either ball, and at the end of the 

 day he could extract a morbid pleasure from 

 writing himself a cheque for the amount he had 

 won and lost, and sending it to the bank upon 

 which it was drawn, to be placed to the credit of 

 his account. Would that all gambling transac- 

 tions — as the dear Dowager Bishop of Monte 

 Carlo once said to me — would that all gambling 

 transactions could be conducted so innocently, 

 with so inconsiderable a loss of treasure and of 

 amour-propre I 



Among advanced Socialists and other persons 

 who entertain exaggerated views upon the 

 Dignity of Labour, the use of a caddy to carry 

 clubs and construct tees is regarded as a grave 

 blemish upon an otherwise harmless pursuit. 

 With equal justice might one resent the em- 

 ployment of a groundman to roll the pitch 



