New Walks in Old Ways 



artificial lake. In the third place, 

 they all know by this time that I am 

 just as fond of that water as they are, 

 and can commonly count for certain, 

 when I pull out my mashie in front of 

 this reservoir, upon being given an 

 opportunity to indulge their aquatic 

 instincts. I do not often disappoint 

 them. I may lose my golf match, but 

 I not only please the caddies — for two 

 or three of them always jump into the 

 boat, unless "called down" for so 

 doing, to render the service which one 

 could do just as well alone — but at the 

 same time delight my opponent, who 

 has already played a pretty shot from 

 the same teeing ground over the water 

 onto the green, and has a sure "three" 

 and a possible "two" to win the hole; 

 whereas he knows that I cannot pos- 

 sibly get out of the water and land my 

 own ball in the cup under four or five 

 or six, according to what further diffi- 

 culties may be encountered on the way. 

 There are cat-tails, too, growing at the 



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