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Make a point of seeing that your caddie always replaces your divots, or replace them yourself if you have no caddie. This, as we all know, is a golfer's first duty. If your ball at any time came to rest in a hole where a divot had not been replaced, you would be extremely annoyed, would say hard things about the other players on the links, and would declare that the course was badly kept.
I can shut my eyes and see them hacking their way around the links; the daughter pretty and more anxious to show off the latest Parisian golfing costumes than to replace a divot; the father determined, perspiring, and red of face, and the mother stout and always in the way." "Isn't Mr. Smith the incorrigible woman-hater?" exclaimed Mrs. Chilvers.
The dreaded hour of night arrived; and, as he said, I was expelled from the family residence, and ordered to a byre, or cow-house, that stood parallel with the dwelling-house behind, where, on a divot loft, my humble bedstead stood, and the cattle grunted and puffed below me. How unlike the splendid halls of Dalcastle! And to what I am now reduced, let the reflecting reader judge.
I carried myself with a good chest, as we say, my features and my leg speak for themselves. I had sung songs trifles of my own, foolishly esteemed, I'm hearing, in many parts of Argile. I'll not deny but I like to think of that, and to fancy young folks humming my ditties by warm Ares when I'm maybe in the cold with the divot at my mouth.
He took one glance at the green, and then came down on that ball as if he intended to drive it into the bowels of the earth. I saw nothing but a shower of mud and a huge divot hurled up by the club-head as the wrists relaxed to save breaking the shaft. Others saw the ball as it flicked the tips of the menacing grass and soared high in the air. It struck on the near edge of the green.
The walls of sod, or DIVOT, as the Scotch call it, were not four feet high; the roof was of turf, repaired with reeds and sedges; the chimney was composed of clay, bound round by straw ropes; and the whole walls, roof, and chimney, were alike covered with the vegetation of house-leek, rye-grass, and moss common to decayed cottages formed of such materials.
She was so excited when she saw them being brought in rich profusion, but when she tried them on all desire to possess one left her: they became her so ill. They buried her, somehow. She said herself she looked like 'a mouse under a divot, whatever that may be, and they really did make her look like five out of any six women one meets in the street. Fur coats are very levelling things.
DOER, an agent, a manager. DOON, doun, down. DOVERING, dozing. DUINHE-WASSEL, dunniewassal, a Highland gentleman, usually the cadet of a family of rank. EANARUICH, the regalia presented by Rob Roy to the Laird of Tullibody. ENEUGH, eneuch, enough. ERGASTULO, in a penitentiary. EXEEMED, exempt. FACTORY, stewardship. FEAL AND DIVOT, turf and thatch. FECK, a quantity.
"Go on!" he said, nodding sardonic approval. "Provoke me to violence. Goad me in the direction of insanity." His caddie sniggered audibly. Berry turned to him. "That's right, my boy. Make the most of your time. For you I have already devised a lingering death." "Look here, old chap," said I, "there's some mistake. I said I'd give you a stroke a hole, not a divot a stroke." Jonah strolled up.
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