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Updated: June 2, 2025
Was it not cruel and hypocritical to talk of this tiresome multitude as ever making home? 'Do you like pets? asked Mysie eagerly, as her mother left the two girls together. 'I never had any, said Dolores. 'Oh how dreadful! Why, old Cockie, and Aga and Begum, the two oldest pussies, have been everywhere with us.
"Cockie is a very good Cockie," said Lord Milford, "and Caravan is a very good horse; and if any gentleman sportsman present wishes to give seven to two, I will take him to any amount." "My book is made up," said Egremont; "and I stand or fall by Caravan." "And I." "And I." "And I." "Well, mark my words," said a fourth, rather solemnly, "Rat-trap wins."
They can still do their round, or their two rounds, five or ten miles' walking a day, and who can speak otherwise than well of a game which is not too strenuous for healthy age or tender childhood, and yet allows an athlete of twenty-three to put out all his strength? Golf is a thoroughly national game; it is as Scotch as haggis, cockie- leekie, high cheekbones, or rowanberry jam.
Late windflowers were still in bloom, and early bluebells made lovely atmospheric patches under the trees, just as though a bit of the sky had fallen, as in the oft-told tale of "Cockie Lockie."
I am to call for you, mind." "How shall we all feel this time to-morrow?" said Egremont, smiling. "The happiest fellow at this moment must be Cockie Graves," said Lord Milford. "He can have no suspense I have been looking over his book, and I defy him, whatever happens, not to lose." "Poor Cockie." said Mr Berners; "he has asked me to dine with him at the Clarendon on Saturday."
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