Word: caber
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...acre estate of Charles Arthur Moore at Round Hill, Conn.. 8,000 U. S. Scots last week assembled for the largest festival of its kind outside Scot-land-the annual Cowal Games of the United States. A day-long orgy of mutton-pie eating, sword-dancing, and caber-tossing, the Cowal Games ended with a parade of 100 bagpipers and drummers who marched over the rolling hills tooting the air of The Seventy-Ninth Farewell to Gibraltar. Prize for piping-a silver cup and $150-went to the Lovat Band whose bald-headed leader, Augus Fraser, has entered...
When Highlanders gather they play loudly and persistently on bagpipes: piobaireachds (traditional laments), marches, pibrochs (battle-cries), strathspeys and reels (dances). They dance highland flings, reels, jigs, sword dances and hornpipes. They compete at putting the shot and tossing the caber (a heavy pole). To do all these things in Banff last week came, Scots from all over Canada. To see and hear came 10,000 guests, including Lieutenant Governors Dr. William Egbert of Alberta, Hon. James Duncan McGregor of Manitoba, Hon. H. W. Newlands of Saskatchewan, Premiers John E. Brownlee of Alberta and S. F. Tolmie of British Columbia...
...Alberta, rang with the slogan* of Scottish clans and the skirl of their bagpipes. Descendants of the early settlers from all over the Dominion gathered for their third annual Highland Gathering and Music Festival. They danced the sword dance, sailor hornpipe and Highland Fling. They contended in throwing the caber, putting the stone. But chiefly they piped the bagpipes, vying for 21 prizes...
...Donald '99, J. S. Cranston '91, G. Murchie '95, J. Lawrence '01, F. W. Hallowell '93, E. J. Lake '92, R. P. Kernan '03, P. D. Haughton '99, A. Marshall L. '04. E. Bowditch '03, J. W. Dunlop '97, L. J. Daly '03, D. S. Dean '91, N. W. Caber '97. R. Lawrence '02, R. W. P. Brown '98, W. L. Garrison '97, J. Parkinson '06, W. Hoag '94, D. C. Campbell '02, B. G. Waters '94, A. J. Cumnock '91, W. H. Lewis L. '95, W. V. Macdonald '03, G. W. Bouve '98, T. G. Meier...