Come
and show us the hammer," said Mack, leading the way out of the barn, for
the rain had ceased, with a big mason's hammer in his hand. It needed
but a single throw to make it quite clear to Cameron that Mack was
greatly in need of coaching. As he said himself he "just took up the
thing and gave it a fling." A mighty fling, too, it proved to be.
"Twenty-eight paces!" cried Cameron, and then, to make sure, stepped
it back again. "Yes," he said, "twenty-eight paces, nearly twenty-nine.
Great Caesar! Mack, if you only had the Braemar swing you would be a
famous thrower."
"Och, now, you are just joking me!" said Mack modestly.
"You can add twenty feet easily to your throw if you get the swing,"
asserted Cameron. "Look here, now, get this swing," and Cameron
demonstrated in his best style the famous Braemar swing.
"Thirty-two paces!" said Mack in amazement after he had measured the
throw. "Man alive! you can beat McGee, let alone myself."
"Now, Mack, get the throw," said Cameron, with enthusiasm. "You will be
a great thrower." But try though he might Mack failed to get the swing.
"Man, come over to-night and bring your pipes. Danny will fetch out his
fiddle and we will have a bit of a frolic, and," he added, as if in an
afterthought, "I have a big hammer yonder, the regulation size.
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