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The first impact must, however, result in a distinctly audible single tap; if a prolonged rattle or a second tap is heard the stroke is foul. However, we need scarcely depreciate the sea as a bath, what is billiards for what need is there of that when the river is clearly better? Only three miles away there was a towering white cliff overhanging a practically desert beach; and one seagull circled above one solitary, motionless, supine man really staying at the seaside. But the former is no more the way to get the full and perfect pleasure of staying at the seaside than the latter is the way to get the full and perfect flavour of the tea. One meditates all the way, and chiefly on how few people there are who can really-to a critical adept-be said to stay at the seaside. Probably there is a certain satisfaction in sitting by the sea with the girl you are in love with, or your wife for the matter of that, just as many people undoubtedly find tea with milk and sugar very nice. There were two junior Ashbys, twins, aged sixteen. He knew that it was possible for a poor player to lose four hundred points in a twenty minutes' game, and usual for him to lose two hundred.

After an excursion train to Eastbourne, upwards of a thousand people have been seen thus heaped together over an oblong space of a mile long by twenty yards wide. People who bathe in the sea bathe by mistake, because they have come to the side of the sea and know not how else to use it. There will be a town of houses behind wherein the people lodge until, as they think, they have stayed a sufficient time at the sea, and they return, hot, cross, and mystified, to London. The true stayer by the seaside goes into the watering-place because he must; because there is little food, and that uncooked, and no tobacco between the cliffs and the sea. The good folks are driving away from the sea for the better part of the day, going to Battle and other places inland. 2. If three good balls have been stopped, the fourth is often destructive, because the batsman's patience is exhausted: so take pains with the fourth ball of the Over. Anon Mr. Hoopdriver found himself riding out of the darkness of non-existence, pedalling Ezekiel's Wheels across the Weald of Surrey, jolting over the hills and smashing villages in his course, while the other man in brown cursed and swore at him and shouted to stop his career.

Your proper bathing place is up the river, where the trees bend to the green and brown shadows of the water. It is hard to imagine how human beings who have drifted down streams and watched the brown fish in the shallows, and peered through the tall sedges at the forget-me-nots, and fought with the ropes of the water-lilies, and heard the ripple under the bows, can ever think of going to and fro, pitching spasmodically, in front of a watering-place. I say, have you any classes this afternoon? They have not the faintest idea how to make themselves happy. No doubt," said Demosthenes. "Have all the class clubs you want, but do not make one of this. It is not proposed to make this a treatise on the game: if it were I should begin with the truism that it is wise for a golfer to keep his temper. By and by the great clock struck 11. The Waterbury was marking 10.30. I pushed it ahead half an hour, with some show of temper. There have been those who assert that one end of staying at the seaside is bathing; but it is easy to show that this is not so.

And, as we have indicated, watering-places and staying by the seaside are incompatible things. Now I ask you, gentlemen, if these things are to be tolerated? Now staying at the seaside is so rarely done well because of the littleness of man. Your true staying at the seaside is an art demanding not only railway fares but special aptitude, and, moreover, needing culture, like all worthy arts. Anyone curious in these matters need only go to a watering-place to see and, what is worse, to hear for himself. For the latter have played not whist but Bumblepuppy, and the former have only frequented a watering-place for a time. It must have fallen off. We must congratulate ourselves that the glorious element of humour is never quite absent from golf, serious though the game and the Scotch nation be. Between the pauses of the wind I heard the game go forward-stroke after stroke. When you see a professional effortlessly knocking in every last ball on the pool table with expert precision, that’s because countless hours of effort have been put into their game. In cricket you either hit a ball as hard as you like or you merely stop; that at any rate is the case when you first go in, and when you are nervous.