Men of Muscle, and the Highland Games of Scotland, etc.

DUNCAN l\1 1 LE~NAN OF EDINBURGH POLICE. 99 the funeral marches, and the black and heavy sound of the dirge over the graves. Suddenly a wild shriek ries for revenge, and again the crash of battle can be heard, and the clash of the claymore, steel against steel, or the thud of the broa<lsword on the target mixes with the din and noise of battle. The pipes tell the whole story, but they lead us now, as they have often done before, away into the mi ty land of dreams. To return to M'Lennan. As a boy, and possibly a barefooted boy at that, we find him engaged as a ghillie in the employment of Lord Seafield, at Balmacaan. About '76 Scott Skinner the famous violinist and dancer visited the Glen, and opened a dancing school there. At the end of the session he organised games, and here young M'Lennan won his first prize. In 1881 M'Lennan joined the Inverness police. Two years later an amateur associa– tion was begun, and M 'Lennan won the Mackintosh Challenge Cup. On this occasion he threw the 16lb. hammer 105ft. At the Highland games at the Black Isle next year he threw the 16lb. hammer IIoft. gin., being 16ft. 4in. over the second prize winner. At the Northern 11eeting in 1889, M'Lennan was first with the heavy stone, the distance being 36ft. uin., defeating M'Rae, Duffy, and Johnston on that day. In the hammer throwing at the last Glasgow Exhibi– tion (1888) open to the police forces of the United Kingdom, M 'Lennan carried off first prize with a distance of 107ft. 5in., with 16lb. hammer. In putting the light ball he al o came first for 4Ift. 4in. The best putt made at the Paris Exhibition sports with the light ball was 43ft. 3in. M'Lennan putt the same ball 43ft. 6in. at the Glasgow police sports on the Glasgow Green. By this time Duncan was a full-fledged professional, but here his improvement seems to have stopped. There were reasons, however, for that stoppage which athletes will easily