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Rh nevertheless everybody is happy, and the holiday is a holiday and everybody is the better.

I have heard it said that bicycling and golfing have revolutionised England. In a sense they have. Distance within a limit has been quite annihilated, and a game has taken root on a soil where it was badly wanted; it has brought into activity a large trade, and increased the value of property in the neighbourhood of links, and added to the gaiety of nations.