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Updated: May 26, 2025
It was weel enough for me, and others like me, who'd been able to put by a bit siller, and could afford to do wi'oot our wages for a space. But it was black tragedy for Jamie and his wife and bairn. Still ye'll be wonderin' how I was reminded of all this at Montrose, where Mac and I showed how bad we were at gowf!
I thought the gowf wad be easier than digging for coal wi' a pick. So oot we set, carryin' our sticks, and ready to mak' a name for ourselves in a new way. Syne Mac had said he could play a little, I told him he must take the honor and drive off. He did no look sae grateful as he should ha' done, but he agreed, at last. "Noo, Harry, stand weel back, man, and watch where this ball lichts.
The minstrels were practising a new paean of praise words by the Grand Vizier, music by the High Priest of Hec which they were to render at the next full moon at the banquet of the worshippers of Gowf. The words came clear and distinct through the still air: "Oh, praises let us utter To our most glorious King! It fairly makes you stutter To see him start his swing! Success attend his putter!
Ramsden paused a moment to disentangle his tongue from the back of his neck. "I'll be right over!" he said huskily. The Coming of Gowf After we had sent in our card and waited for a few hours in the marbled ante-room, a bell rang and the major-domo, parting the priceless curtains, ushered us in to where the editor sat writing at his desk.
Such a busy bee!" "Busy B? Busy Bartlett, quo' she! Yes, I'm a busy B to-day, Mistress Mapp. Sermon all morning: choir practice at three, a baptism at six. No time for a walk to-day, let alone a bit turn at the gowf." Miss Mapp saw her opening, and made a busy bee line for it. "Oh, but you should get regular exercise, Padre," said she. "You take no care of yourself.
In fact, except for the Grand Vizier, who, always a faithful follower of his sovereign's fortunes, had taken to Gowf from the start, the courtiers held aloof to a man.
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