e is so strong,
confident and easy in his execution of shots. If I could drive like he
does I would be willing to lose a dozen balls every time I played."

I changed the subject, and was showing her a new way to grip the club
when I heard a step behind us.

"Hello, Smith! If you are going out in that buzz-wagon with me, Kid, you
had better drop that stick and get a move on."

Of course it was her father. No one else would dare talk to Miss Harding
like that. To hear him one would think that she was twelve years old,
but I suppose fathers can do as they like.

"Fix up a ball, Kid, and let's see how far you can soak it," he said.

"I am just practising the follow through," explained Miss Harding. "Mr.
Smith has told me many things about the correct way to follow through."

"When your mother was your age she was practising the 'follow through,'
as you call it, on a scrubbing board over a wash tub," declared Mr.
Harding, and he said it as if he were proud of it.

"I could do that if I had to," laughed Miss Harding, handing me the
club. "Thank you, Mr. Smith. To-morrow I expect to show decided
improvement. Come on, papa!"

"So long, Smith," said Harding. "I'm going to trim you youngsters at
your own game before I get through with you."

I took a rest all the afternoon so as to be in shape for to-morrow. I
propose to show Miss Harding that I am the peer of Carter or anyone else
who plays here.

It never occurred to me that it was possible to get enjoyment out of a
golf course by any method other than by playing over it, but I had keen
pleasure all the afternoon in studying the men who frequent the Woodvale
links. My refusal to play created a sensation, and I enjoyed that.

It is amusing to study the way in which different players go about this
game. The railway station is only a few hundred yards away, and as I
watched those men who came on the 1:42 train from the city the thought
occurred to me that I could have picked out the good players even had I
been a stranger to those who approached the club house. You can class
the various types of golfers by their mannerisms, even if you have never
seen them with a club in their hands. For instance there were two
members who left the station platform at the same time--Duff and
Monahan. Both are men of standing in the community, and both are charter
members. They started to learn the game at the same period, and both
play at least five afternoons during the season, yet Mo