They agreed on this point emphatically.

As well as I could gather, I was subjecting my interior to that highly shellacked gloss which is peculiar to the bosom of the old-fashioned full-dress or burying shirt upon its return from the steam laundry, when what my system really called for was the dull domestic finish.
"Well, doc," I said upon hearing this for the second time in language which already had a familiar sound--"well, all that you say being true, what then ?" "For one thing, more exercise." "But I take plenty of exercise now." "For example, what ?" "For example, golf." "How often do you play golf ?" "Well, not so very often, as the real golf-bug or caddie's worm would measure the thing--say, on an average of once a week in the golfing season.

But I take so many swings at the ball before hitting it that I figure I get more exercise out of the game than do those who play oftener but take only about one wallop at the pill in driving off.

And when I drive into the deep grass, as is my wont, my work with the niblick would make you think of somebody bailing out a sinking boat.

My bunker exercises are frequently what you might call violent.