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Rh a double trade, and it is far better that there should be.

If your youthful caddie seems bent on devoting all his life to golf in some shape or other, he should be forced to become apprenticed to the local club-maker, who should initiate him in the mysteries of club-making and club-repairing. If he becomes good at this he stands a better chance of getting employed on a permanent place as professional to a club. If the club is a prosperous one he has plenty of club-making, and will have to employ several men in the shop, while he has only to supervise. This will give him time for playing golf, and there are many cases where a partnership concern is started, and a fine golfer takes into partnership an equally good club-maker, and the result is most profitable, though I may be excused if I think the man who plays has a better time than the man who is in the shop. But there is money in it, as Mr. Gradgrind would say, and there are many more unpleasant ways of earning a livelihood than a club shop. It smells so nice and is so clean, there is so much gossip going on, and the ways of golfers are so varied, and the agonised endeavours of many to get