Word: scottishly
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Everyone knows that hardly an Englishman thought of going all the way to Scotland after small game until the railway was developed during the past century. Thus there is something piquantly "nouveau" about the Scottish grouse season?an unproved, ephemeral event less than a century...
...Royal Family, as usual, were proceeding by easy stages to their retired Scottish estate, Balmoral. Before leaving London, the King and Queen attended a U. S. musical comedy, The Vagabond King. Then His Majesty set out for ancient Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, seat of the Duke of Devonshire, while Queen Mary went by another route to sojourn briefly with her brother, the Marquess of Cambridge, at Shotton Hall, Shrewsbury...
...rollick. The little Scot prances and taps them out with his cane as he sings. Two plump, white knees twinkle below his kilt, and the Puckish smile of Sir Harry Lauder becomes as irresistible as the merry light in his grey eyes. Soon one more audience has succumbed to Scottish magic and is lilting the chorus joyously...
...championship cup was donated. Tom Morris Jr., his whiskers now fully and handsomely grown, went again to Prestwick and won the first leg on the cup. Scottish golfers were dismayed but cheerful. What could you do against the son and pupil of old Tom Morris, who had himself won four of the first ten championships after they were started...
That evening on the streets of St. Andrews, newsboys sold "Bawby's" picture framed beside that of Tom Morris Jr. One dismayed Scotsman growled, "Ye're nae a gowfer at a'-ye're juist a machine." Another said: ". . . the gr-reatest gowfer in the wur-rld." Carried on Scottish shoulders to his hotel (beside the 18th fairway), Gowfer Jones hastily sought privacy. The terrific strain had ended in an attack of nausea. When it had passed he said: "I'm too happy to talk. To be a champion at St. Andrews is quite too much...