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GAY SIDE OF GOLF.
"DEM-DEM'S" VERSES ON A HOLE IN ONE.
AL
Under the familiar preudanyip. Dum-Data, new little valine of verse by Major John Kendall, The Seventh Hole," is published (Blackwell, s.)
As alwa, Dun Dun is de liciously any and amusing. fact, The Seventh Hole" is "top bole."
The title-piece thescribes "" astounding stroke in fet, many Strokes, of lurk which every golfer will appreciate. Here 'Deun- Dam" is at us gay best-
Because, to put the matten in a
word, My heart, my heart is like n
singing bird:
Because this hessel morning. I
bave done
The seventh hole in one.
The sagu proceeds:
It did not look like that at first
at all:
I sliced the beastly bail.. Which swerved from off the club Towards about the worst spot in
a round lif-mile.
4
Furze, heuther, sore, alumin-
able grass, ned gen scrub, Immeasurably vile...
But, even as distraction filled any
breast,
The decent gods were kind.
The wind, the jolly old
venient windy
con-
Flew up and showed a sudden
interest:
Triumphantly
fotal cut...
o'ercarne that
breath-catching round if ever there was one! But it was, all right in the end, after more fearful vicissitudes :
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For so it was. Once in an age-
The gods bring off their won-
dore. That is all
I know, on earth, ond all I want
to low... The ball was in the tin, und
had dobe
The-Boventh hole in one. Then to my foe, who stood with
drooping head,
"That, for a half," I suid.
"At William's Wedding Feast
it is the poet soliloquising as he gazes or the-rich-array-of-gifta "painful to a single men.
But, William, was it well to hire A sleuth from Scotland Yord. And put him there a sentinel?
That was not well. It was
not well.
A delightful little piece. "Scout Law," describes the "gentle boy" tossing sleepless on his bed, "a Scout forsworn" because the pres Icribed 'one kindly act o day had
somehow gone unperformed.
"I could condone the jealous fire!
You handled in a lonely hard;
In all his little world was none.
Who, at an hour so late," Would want a kindly action
dode,
His heart despaired.
wait
But
He saw one happy chance. At
that,
Forth from his room he crept Gave the canary to the cat,,
Then went to bad, and slept.
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