s
companion.

"Wilecat, look at dem two boys on de hotel steps. Dey sho' looks like
dem Blue Fezant Nobles you was speakin' 'bout."

The Wildcat rose to his knees and looked across Powell Street. Sure
enough, there before his eyes stood two of the Blue Fezant gentlemen.
He lost no time in going towards them. "Come on heah, Mud Turtle! I
knowed we'd meet some o' dem Blue Fezant boys. Come on heah!"

A moment later the Wildcat and the Mud Turtle confronted the two Nobles
of the Mysterious Mecca. Each of the nobles was festooned with a golf
bag. The pair were headed for Lincoln Park. The Wildcat spoke to the
larger of the two gentlemen. "Cap'n, suh," he said, "I was de po'tah on
a special car f'm Chicago what hauled some of you Blue Fezant gen'men
out heah. Kin you tell me whah at Lily mah mascot goat is?"

The Blue Fezant gentleman looked at the Wildcat for a moment. "Seems to
me I heard about that goat. Some of the boys got him some place."

The second man interposed some additional information. "You mean the
white goat? He's out with Jim and Frank on the golf links."

The first Potent Noble turned toward the Wildcat. "He's out where we're
going now. Come with us and maybe you'll find him. Is he your goat?'

"Cap'n, suh, you sho' soun' good! Does I meet up wid dat Lily I beats
'at goat to death--mebbe. Lily sho' is mah goat. I raised him clean f'm
France." He turned to his companion. "Mud Turtle, take 'at bag fo' de
gen'men. Cap'n, suh, we carry dis stuff."

The Potent Nobles smiled at each other. "These boys can caddy for us.
Do you boys want to caddy for us?"

Without knowing exactly what it was, the Wildcat signed quite a
contract. "Cap'n, yessuh. Whatever you wants, us does. How come dis
caddy business?"

"You carry the bag around while we go golf hunting."

The Wildcat spoke lowly to the Mud Turtle. "Golf hunting? What's dis
heah golfs? Neveh seed one pussonally."

"Boy, don't you know what golfs is? Sumpin' like a dog, only smaller.
Born wild. Dey gin'ally gits wilder when dey grows up."

"How big does dey git?"

"Dog size--some bigger, sometimes."

"Neveh seed none in Memphis."

"Dey's tame down dere; out heah dey grows wild. Some parts, de wild
golfs run 'roun' so thick a man hardly kin plough his fiel', 'thout
carryin' six or eight shotguns on de plow. Dis country was 'fested wid
golfs till de Indians got heah."

"'Fested wid Indians till white folks got heah, too. I guess could de
Indians