My knees, my hands, my elbows, with obliquity were rife.

McBungo's sleek sham sympathy and sinister surprise

Made almost insupportable the burden of my life.

He was so beastly friendly, and he was so blazing fair,

So fulsomely effusive with suggestion, tip, and hint!

And all the while that caddie stood serenely cock-eyed there.

Oh! never have a caddie with a squint!

Miss Binks was looking on! On that maiden I was gone,

Just as she was gone on golf, in perfervid Scottish style.

On my merits with McBungo I should just about have won,