Excerpt from A Batch of Golfing Papers I, who have suffered by the hour together From idle blockheads talking golfer's shop, Until I had to introduce the weather Or the potato crop. Not that all golfers are such bores to be with I Some, I believe, are reasonable men. Some, whose acquaintance Fate has favoured me with, I would not meet again. 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.