First Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
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on within about six feet, and was down in four. Gerald took it in
three, but I had a stroke, so I halved. Then the eighth I told you about. WENTWORTH. Was that where you fell into the pond? TOMMY. No, no; you're thinking of the fifth, where I topped my drive into the pond. WENTWORTH. I knew the pond came into it somewhere. I hoped--I mean I thought you fell in. TOMMY. Look here, you _must_ remember the eighth, old chap; that was the one I did in one. Awful bit of luck. WENTWORTH. Bit of luck for me too, Tommy. TOMMY. Why? WENTWORTH. Because now you can hurry on to the ninth. TOMMY. I say, Wentworth, I thought you were keen on golf. WENTWORTH. Only on my own. TOMMY. You're a fraud. Here I've been absolutely wasting my precious time on you and--I suppose it wouldn't even interest you to hear that Gerald went round in seventy-two--five under bogey? WENTWORTH. It would interest me much more to hear something about |
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