*** A contemporary wit declares that nothing gives him more pleasure than to see golfers at dinner.

Some soldiers and some golfers in the distance, but like the day Ann had come upon the Island, no one within immediate range.

He had first been attracted to the coursea sweet course, said the golf-architect who had laid it out over the rolling land south of townby the personality of one John Knox McTavish, an earnest Scotchman of youngish middle age, procured from afar to tell the beginning golfers of Newbern to keep their heads down and follow through and not to press the ball.

The idea of allocating some of our incurable golfers to this purpose does not appear to have suggested itself to our slow-witted authorities.

But Joel, nevertheless, derived not a little encouragement from that result, and bade fair to become almost if not quite as enthusiastic a golfer as West.

A great budget of correspondence from all parts of the country has reached Mr. Punch concerning the suggestions put forward by famous golfers with the view of modifying the predominant influence exercised by putting in golf.

The Whirlpoolers, though only here for the between seasons, are constantly entertaining among themselves, and hardly a day passes but a coaching party drives up from town with week-end golfers for whom a dance is given, or stops en route to the Berkshires or some farther point.

" West drew a golf ball from his pocket and, throwing it on the turf, gave it a half-shot off toward the river, following leisurely after it and pondering on the possibility of making a crack golfer out of a country lad in a straw hat.