The Denty Den is simply the Dainty Dell. The Scottish denty "is even more comprehensively expressive than its

English equivalent and is used with a far greater freedom, as for example in the old nursery rhyme -

Katie Beardie had a coo, Black an' white aboot the moo, Wisna' that a denty coo ? Dance Katie Beardie.

To the accompaniment of that old rhyme Scottish mothers would dandle their babes on their knee. Denty Den suggests an idyll of sylvan beauty and practically describes the little valley in which the green has been placed. Grassy rigs are its borders and its paths are paths of pleasantness, such as were those of the other Denty Den, sung of by the ardent lover in ecstatic verse -

By yon green howe, in yon green glen, O fine I min' the munelicht when, Bricht shining owre the Denty Den,

In silver sheen, It shone upon the lass I ken, She vowed to share my but and ben, And made me King among a' men,

Wi' her for Queen.

Your true golfer is readily influenced by environment, and here in the serene quietude of wonderful natural charm is inspired to play well. It is not stretching a point to say so. It is the simple truth. Denty Den has a winsome appeal. Allan Ramsay possibly gives us the finest estimate of "denty when he crowns this delightful description of feminine charm with the word:

White is her neck, salt is her hand,

Her waist and feet's fu' genty, With ilka grace she can command,

Her lips, o' wow ! they're truly.

It you wish a better definition than that it would be hard to discover one.