Golf and Groundlings I had a very courteous opponent last
week at the game of golf. He sliced, as the very elect may do, a long drive into the rough and after a long search found the ball lying snug in a lark's nest. The law of the game did not allow him to remove it by hand without losing strokes and his humanitarian feelings did not allow him to play it, so he insisted on surrendering the hole. Larks' nests on that course are numerous. Two willow warblers nested—on the ground, of course, close to two teeing grounds. The juniper bushes are well sprinkled with linnets' nests, and an occasional long-tailed fit's. The red shrike nests in the thorns. I have seen two birds hit by golf balls: one a lark which soon recovered from the blow, the other a cock chaffinch which was hit full in mid-air and instantly destroyed. Twice I have found a yellow-hammer's nest (one in August), thanks to its juxtaposition to a crooked golf ball.-
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