Goody Two-Shoes
GOODY TWO-SHOES A FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION OF THE EDITION OF 1766 _WITH AN INTRODUCTION_ BY CHARLES WELSH GRIFFITH & FARRAN _Successors to Newbery & Harris_
ENTRY NO. VI
I PLAY WITH MISS HARDING
I regret that lack of intimacy with the muses prevents me from recording
this entry in verse. I have been playing golf with Miss Harding!
Not until this afternoon did I realise that constant association with
Marshall, Carter, Chilvers, and other hardened golfers has dulled my
finer sensibilities and deadened my appreciation of the wonderful scenic
beauties of the Woodvale golf course.
Like the fool bicycle scorcher who tears past beautiful bits of
landscape, his eyes fixed on the dusty path spurned by his whirring
wheel, or like the goggled maniac who steers an automobile, I now find
that I have played hundreds of times over this course without once
having seen it.
When I was a boy my foolish parents took me on a tour of the continent,
for the reason, I presume, that they did not dare leave me at home. My
impression of the colossal splendour beneath the vaulted heights of
Saint Peter's was that a certain smooth space on the tiled floor offered
unequalled facilities for playing marbles. I marvelled that baseball
GOODY TWO-SHOES A FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION OF THE EDITION OF 1766 _WITH AN INTRODUCTION_ BY CHARLES WELSH GRIFFITH & FARRAN _Successors to Newbery & Harris_