One of those girls confirmed the story that "Uncle Arthur" one day concluded that the niblick was something more than a humble necessity of a bad golfer--that it had positive virtues of its own and had suffered centuries of neglect.

He, therefore, proceeded to play with the niblick only, till he proved his case and showed that it is a club entitled to the highest respect.
A fierce old Liberal fighter in Parliamentary warfare, who entered politics about the time Mr.Balfour did, told me this story the other day.

"I've watched Balfour for about forty years as a cat watches a rat.

I hate his party.

I hated him till I learned better, for I hated that whole Salisbury crowd.