Some Englishman asked me one night in what, I thought, the Englishman appeared at his best.

I said, "As an ancestor to Americans!" And this is the fundamental reason why we (two peoples) belong close together.

Reasons that flow from these are such as follows: (1) The race is the sea-mastering race and the navy-managing race and the ocean-carrying race; (2) the race is the literary race, (3) the exploring and settling and colonizing race, (4) the race to whom fair play appeals, and (5) that insists on individual development.
Your mother having read these two days 1,734 pages of memoirs of the Coke family, one of whose members wrote the great law commentaries, another carried pro-American votes in Parliament in our Revolutionary times, refused peerages, defied kings and--begad! here they are now, living in the same great house and saying and doing what they darn please--we know this generation of 'em!--well, your mother having read these two big volumes about the old ones and told me 175 good stories out of these books, bless her soul! she's gone to sleep in a big chair on the other side of the table.
Well she may, she walked for two hours this morning over hills and cliffs and through pine woods and along the beach.

I guess I'd better wake her up and get her to go to bed--as the properer thing to do at this time o'night, viz.11.My golf this afternoon was too bad to confess.

But I must say that a 650 and a 730 yard hole argues the audacity of some fellow and the despair of many more.
Nature made a lot of obstructions there and Man made more.