Friday, December 25, 2009

stinguished German visiti

Ssible expediency. To hear a group of golfers discuss the merits of
these tools is one of the extraordinary experiences one has in America.
I have been made fairly "giddy," as the Englishmen say, by this anemic
conversation at country clubs. The "high-ball" was the saving clause--a
remarkable invention this. Have I explained it? You take a very tall
glass, made for the purpose, and into it pour the contents of a small
cut-glass bottle or decanter of whisky, which must be Scotch, tasting of
smoke. On this you pour seltzer or soda-water, filling up the glass, and
if you take enough you are "high" and feel like a rolling ball. It is
the thing to take a "high-ball" after every nine holes in golf. Then
after the game you bathe, and

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