Wants Explanation.

Manawatu Herald, 25 August 1898, Page 3

Wants Explanation.

• The following story from the Outlook will amuse others besides golfers : — • There is, as all the world knows, a dire sand-bunder on the famous 8b Andrews links called Hell. In sympathy perhaps with a milder Scottish theology this place of punishment for erring golfers has in recent years undergone a gradual amelioration. ' But imagine two elderly women in the Fife train overhearing the following from the lips of a clergyman reciting the incidents of his golfing holiday to a friend :— 'I have been going the wrong road latply and getting into Hell, but the place is not what it was. I was in twice in one week and found no difficulty in getting out. The first time I was lying very bad, but I forced it with an iron. The second time I might just have bten in an ordinary bunker.' (Bunker in Scoter, land is the name of a fixed-in box 'frrhoiding the household coal). ' I think it a pity that Hell is bo much neglected ; it aged to be a grand

punishment. In my young days a a man in Hell just stayed there and swore ; now he comes out laughing at it. The Old Man should see to it.' The Old Man intended was probably Tom Morris, bus the one woman said to the other : Who in the world can that misister man be ? • Oh, answered the second wife, he'll be a Catholic priest, I'm thinking.' 1 Ah, weel, there's a chance for our John yet, for where a body that can get out, John will scrape through.