Dress bothered the caddie very little, for the other
fellows never criticized the habiliments, however poor.
I wore a sweater constantly, even to grammar school,
and I have a distinct remembrance of being offered by
my mother a pecuniary inducement to wear a collar on
some special occasion at school. It was not comfortable
to caddy in collars and it was a dreadful nuisance to
be obliged to change clothes as soon as one reached
home from school. My habit was to drop school books
inside the house door without going in and bolt for
