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A Line o’ Gowf or Two

by Bert Leston Taylor

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Addressing the Ball

I do not like the Colonel’s camp,
  Because I hate a crowd;
The language there would light a lamp,
  And all the talk is loud.

I do not like the Taftian camp,
  Its atmosphere is ghoulish;
The language there is dull and damp,
  And all the talk is foolish.

I do not like a hue and cry,
  I do not like a pall,
A plague on both your camps, say I—
  Hey, Caddy! Watch that ball!


“The revolutionists hold much of southern Finland along the Finnish golf,” reports the Minneapolis Journal. And A. E. B. thinks it must be annoying to have those seaside links cluttered up with Bullsheviki, Red Guards, and other things.


The difference between a summer member and a regular member of a golf club is that the summer member does not enjoy the privilege of paying dues during the winter.

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