The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-02


and trying to water a great oak with
a half inoh hose, emitting a quarter
of a pint in five minutes Peter No
\ lGourooH, looked oyer the fenoe and
passed the time Of day. f'' = 80
Ye'ilhave aciub here, OF fuUurse7 81
asked Peter. .,.....,t,.t t.nfaaf
"oh, rather, . replied Wilkinson.
''No end OF clubs We've a capital
tennis olub, and a crOquet club, and
river club, and q bicycle club
and ...
But Wilkinson drew up suddenly,
thrown on his launches. for the
gray eye of Peter McGourock, which
should have been ablaze with enthu-
siastic interest was pale with a
strong contempt
But how about the olubP" he
asked.
"Club?" said Wilkinson. why
well-we've all those clubs. What
more
~ was not asking about these
treevial things" said McGourock.
"ANA9 y GbAA NA4bs
"Eh? Oh-why-we haven't-er
exactly any golf olub-that is, not
just yet. Is it a good sort of gamer"
said poor Wilkinson.
Peter looked him all over very
slowly, then looked the hose all over
very slowly, then Wilkinson's gar
den, then Wilkinson's house, right
up to the top of the new Louvre pot,
then, repeating very slowly, "Es-
observation-disclosures" no
turned away and disappeared into
his drawing room.
For days after that poor wilkin-
son, while watering the big oak
with the half inch hose, would cast
furtive glanoes at the MoGourook
tapping the little white ball into the
little hole in the lawn, and at times
he could perceive, with the tail Of
his eye, Peter McGourock eying him
over, or portions of his property, and
at times he could hear the muttered
words, ''Es ct a good SORT of gamer"
At length Wilkinson made hero
10 effort TO put matters on q less
painful footing. he looked over the
fence at Peter, who was doing some
thing to golf iron with a file, and
said cheerfully, but with a dreadful
nervousness within:
IF it-er-when you could spare
ten minutes, should take it as fa-
vor if you would teach me to play
golf. /"
Ten minutes, ye say?" said Pc
ter. using that horrid eye of his.
We'll, well, of course 1 don't
mean to say could learn in ten
minutes - ha, ha-- ridiculous, OF
course" said poor Wilkinson. But
if you'd kindly teach me the
stroke
'Sirr," said Peter, "a man can
not be taught golf. :"
"Well-of course 1 don't mean n
say-that is-but a fellow might try
to learn. .+
Golf, said Peter, "es not thing
, that a man can learn"
well, but-hang it all-how dc
people ever play? People do play
golf, don't they?"
Play said Peter. And what
might ye mean by play?'"
, "Why-well, confound il. DonT
you see people knocking confounded
little white balls over confounded
obstacles with things like that you're
fling at2''
; Poor Wilkinson was turning. Even
Wilkinsons will turn.
"Ah, " replied Peter, "ye see peo.
pie do that, and many's the number
of them, but We talked Of playing.
: SIR, of man begins golf when heS
put into short clothes and devotes
his life to ct excepting the Sabbath
only, that was specially ordained for
him to repaint balls and see tC
, things), and ef cts granted to thai
man at the close Of q long life to ar,
/. rive at the knowledge that he knows
nothing Of golf, that man can die 9
! happy man, and when he's finally
E holed he will not have lived in vain
Aye, continued Peter suddenly, "et
l es good SORT Of game. It's Just 4
: gran game. It's Just the only game. ,
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