He either cuts it too fine and is very short in the attempt to lay it dead, or else, frightened of the bunker that lies so dangerously near to him, he determines to get over at all risks and overruns the green by forty or fifty yards. His main defect as a footman was that he was somewhat hard of hearing, and had a marvellous faculty of misinterpreting whatever was said to him, which occasionally led to remarkable results. There was an interview with the butler, but as he promptly lost his head, wrath gave place to pity, and pity led to a long conversation, in the course of which he put the fat Engineer-Sahib's tragic death in three separate stations-two of them fifty miles away. Carom, or French, billiards is played with three balls on a table that has no pockets. Contact us today and become an owner of a pool table from an award-winning team of professional craftsmen. This process left it in a very glassy and orthodox condition, as the cook discovered when, on bustling in, the back of her cranium came in violent contact with the boards, while her body described a half-circle with a velocity which completely eclipsed any subsequent feats of agility shown by the dancers in the evening.

There was a carpet down from the kerb to the head of the lodging-house steps, "like r'yalty," as the cook expressed it, and the green-grocer's man in the hall looked so pompous and inflated in his gorgeous attire that his own cabbages would hardly have recognized him. If a man said to a confirmed dâk-bungalow-haunter: "There is a corpse in the next room, and there's a mad girl in the next but one, and the woman and man on that camel have just eloped from a place sixty miles away," the hearer would not disbelieve because he would know that nothing is too wild, grotesque, what is billiards or horrible to happen in a dâk-bungalow. If I had encouraged him the butler would have wandered all through Bengal with his corpse. She hurried away to greet a party of new arrivals, while the major and Baumser wandered off in search of partners. I stayed for the night, while the wind and the rat and the sash and the window-bolt played a ding-dong "hundred and fifty up". And well it might, when a restless little rat was running to and fro inside the dingy ceiling-cloth, and a piece of loose window-sash was making fifty breaks off the window bolt as it shook in the breeze.

Not ordinary fear of insult, injury or death, but abject, quivering dread of something that you cannot see-fear that dries the inside of the mouth and half of the throat-fear that makes you sweat in the palms of the hands, arid gulp in order to keep the uvula at work? As a beginner, the world of billiards may seem daunting at first, but fear not! Then the wind ran out and the billiards stopped, and I felt that I had ruined, my one genuine ghost-story. Thus, when he announced the sporting Captain Livingstone Tuck under the title of Captain Lives-on-his luck, it was felt that he was rather too near the truth to be pleasant. This is a fine Fear-a great cowardice, and must be felt to be appreciated. They also place their cue ball behind the head string and must shoot it past the head string before striking an object ball. The small end of the cue, with which the ball is struck, is fitted with a plastic, fibre, or ivory reinforcement to which is cemented a leather cue tip. That on his bowling is particularly frustrating, as it leaves its reader little wiser at the end than he was at the beginning as to exactly what sort of bowler Astill was.

The saloon had been very tastefully laid out as a supper-room, and numerous other little chambers were thrown open and brightened up to serve as lounging places for those who were fatigued. But it is true of golf that you will find it impossible to avoid being compelled some time or other to play with a club you have little confidence in, and to negotiate distances you hate. A fearless man is fearless because he has confidence, and to feel confidence is impossible when playing with a club that bitter experience has told you you cannot use. What pleasure any man can take in such stuff must astonish any sensible woman. Drinking is apparently pleasant to many, judging by the Excise returns, but ingenuous youth is told by a wise father that he must not give way to it, and he does not. There is another reason why golf is a greater test of nerve than billiards, and that is the variety of weapons that you must have for different strokes. There was no want of spirit or of variety in the dancing at Morrison's.