Somehow I never hit it off well with him.

Too sarcastic, thinking he's funny all the time; uncouth, too." "Well, perhaps so." Wilbur was willing to let this go.

He did not consider Sharon Whipple surly or uncouth or sarcastic, but he was not going to dispute with this curiously restored brother.

"Try a brassy on that," he suggested, to drop the character of Sharon Whipple.
Merle tried the brassy, and they played out the hole.

Merle made an eight.
"I should have had a six at most," he protested, "after that lovely long brassy shot." Wilbur grinned.
"John McTavish says the should-have-had score for this course is a mar-r-rvel.