Reminiscences of the old Bruntsfield Links Golf Club, 1866-1874

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REMINISCENCESOFTHEOLD
of
the
little
town,
much
to
the
amusement
of
the
natives.
I
1
havementionedthenameofMr.ArchibaldSomer-
vileinconnectionwiththatofCroall.
Apropos
ofhim,
it
is
worth
while
recalling
an
incident
which
happened
at
one
of
our
excursions
to
Gullane,
on
account
of
its
connection
with
the
tragedy
of
the
City
of
Glasgow
Bank,
which
happened
a
few
years
later.
Somervile
andI
1
hadbeendrawntoplaytogether,andwerepro-
ceeding
to
the
starting
hole,
when
a
carriage
and
pair
filled
with
golfers—members
of
our
own
Club
who
were
late
in
arriving—drove
up.
There
was
rather
a
scarcity
of
caddies
that
day,
and
Somervile's
boy,
whether
from
seeing
in
the
carriage
some
one
whom
he
had
formerly
been
in
the
habit
of
carrying
for,
or
imagining
that
men
who
drove
down
in
a
carriage
were
more
likely
to
be
liberal
than
those
who
came
by
'bus,
threw
down
Somervile's
clubs
and
rushed
after
the
carriage.
Somer-
vile
gave
chase,
and
arrived
on
the
scene
just
as
the
boy
had
engaged
himself
to
carry
for
another
of
our
members,
who
shall
be
nameless.
To
this
gentleman
the
position
of
matters
was
explained,
but
there
was
no
other
caddy
procurable,
and
he,
no
doubt
most
im-
properly,
declined
to
give
him
up,
his
mistake
being
aggravated
by
the
fact
that
he
was
a
man
at
least
twenty
years
younger
than
Somervile,
and
much
more
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