# Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

Author: Thomas, Charles Swain, 1868-1943 [Editor]; Ashe, Elizabeth, 1885-1974; Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961; Comer, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt), 1865-1929; Dobie, Charles Caldwell, 1881-1943; Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963; Dwight, H. G. (Harrison Griswold), 1875-1959; Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933; Gerould, Katharine Fullerton, 1879-1944; Hathaway, Katharine Butler, 1890-1942; Humphrey, Zephine, 1874-1956; Lerner, Mary, 1882-1938; Louriet, F. J.; Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938; Lynn, Margaret, 1870-1958; Mercer, C. A.; Montague, Margaret Prescott, 1878-1955; Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924; Sedgwick, Anne Douglas, 1873-1935; Sharp, Dallas Lore, 1870-1929; Sherwood, Margaret Pollock, 1864-1955; Starr, Ernest; Stone, Amy Wentworth, 1876-1938; Taylor, Arthur Russell, 1862-1918

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38172

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Atlantic+Narratives%3A+Modern+Short+Stories+Thomas&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There is a story current among companionable golfers of a countryman who reluctantly accepted an invitation from a group of friendly associates to try his unpracticed hand at golf. When they all arrived at the links, his friends carefully placed the little carbonadoed sphere upon the tee, and told their aged neophyte that he must try to send this little painted ball to the first hole--plainly marked by the distant waving red flag toward which they pointed. The stalwart old man swung his club valiantly, hit the golf-ball a square, ringing blow, and watched it eagerly as it made its long, swift flight toward the far-off putting-green. His three friends, all loudly congratulating him upon hi...

## Chapters

- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/atlantic-narratives-modern-short-stories-38172/chapters/26/index.md)