Excerpt from The Morningside, Vol. 3: December 20, 1898 But no man who visits the Moreland Country Club can be kept away from the links, and Billy fell at last into the clutches of the game. It was the Old story. He was standing one day by the first tee, watching his friend Robertson foozling Off some wretched shots, and freely expressing his astonish ment over the man's stupidity at such an apparently simple trick. At last the exasperated Robertson thrust a driver into Billy's hand and bade him do better himself. Billy grasped the club with the beginner's gingerly awkwardness, stepped to the tee, and batted at the ground with the fiercest energy. And the ball - most perverse of atoms-lit out from the tee in a low, screaming curve, a full hundred and eighty yards, straight over the circular bunker that guards the first green the finest drive made from that tee in a month. You see, said Billy, calmly, I told you it was easy. Here, take your club I've had enough. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.