It must be seven or eight miles around that course! It's almost a three hour task to follow my slow ball around it.

I suggested we play with howitzers instead of clubs.

Good night! W.H.P.
_To Frank N.Doubleday and Others_ Royal Bath and East Cliff Hotel, Bournemouth, May 29, 1916.
DEAR D.P.

& Co.: I always have it in mind to write you letters; but there's no chance in my trenches in London; and, since I have not been out of London for nearly two years--since the war began--only an occasional half day and a night--till now--naturally I've concocted no letter.

I've been down here a week--a week of sunshine, praise God--and people are not after me every ten minutes, or Governments either; and my most admirable and efficient staff (now grown to one hundred people) permit few letters and telegrams to reach me.