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Updated: June 26, 2025
It was like Donald Dinnie at the Highland Games: when he has thrown the hammer or tossed the caber, the spectator hardly takes notice of the next competitor. By the way, I suppose you will be going to the Northern meeting at the end of this month?" "I am sorry I cannot stay so long, though Lady Adela was good enough to ask me," he made answer. "I must go south very soon now."
The Count informed him. "Tollivoddlesh is nozing to vat I am at home! Abs'lutely nozing! I have a house twice as big as zis, and servants Ach, so many I know not! Bot, mein Bonker, it is not soch fon as zis! Mein Gott, I most get to bed. I toss ze caber to-morrow." And upon the arm of his faithful ally he moved cautiously towards his bedroom.
On this occasion he ensconced himself in a niche of the ruins, where he was out of the glare of the sun, and gracefully surrounded by masses of ivy; while his relatives hauled out to the middle of the green plateau several trunks of fir-trees, of various sizes, that had been carefully lopped and pruned for the purpose of 'tossing the caber. Well, they 'tossed the caber, they 'put the stone, they had wrestling-matches and other trials of strength, Rob the while surveying the scene with a critical eye, and reckoning up the proper number of marks.
"Jost a leetle EXPOSITION of ze Highland sport, mit bagpipes and caber and so forth; unvorthy of your notice perhaps, bot ze best I can do." Eleanor clapped her hands enthusiastically. "I should just love it!" The triumphant diplomatist smiled complacently. "Bonker vill arrange it all nicely," he said to himself.
"Ach, I am used to do so," said the Baron simply, and then burst out eagerly, "Some feat you must design for me at ze sports so zat I can show zem my strength, eh?" "With the caber, for instance?" The Baron had seen the caber tossed, and he shook his head. "He is too big." "I might fit a strong spring in one end." But the Baron still seemed disinclined.
When he returned he found the Baron stirring a cup of strong tea and staring at an ancestral portrait with a thoughtful frown. "They are preparing the caber, Baron," he remarked genially. "Stoff and nonsense; I vill not fling her!" was the wholly unexpected reply. "I do not love to play ze fool alvays!" "My dear Baron!"
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