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A mouth music fragment.

Granny Stewart came from Sutherland but moved to Dingwall aged seven. She hardly spoke any Gaelic after she went there.

A humorous poem about fossils.

A song conveying a message of fraternity between Leith blacksmiths and their Soviet counterparts, and more generally in spirit, between working men and women of all trades.

Fragment of a horseman's toast, 'Corn mills and whisky stills'.

Questions and answers at Horseman's Word initiation ceremony. After knocking three times at the door the novice horseman is asked a series of questions, quoted by interviewer and contributor.

Horseman's Word must not be written down or told to any outsider. The Horseman's Word must not be written down or told to any outsider, especially not to a woman. The interviewer gives as reason t...

Horseman's grace, said as a dialogue between interviewer and contributor.

Young Johnnie More goes to London as a soldier and falls in love with the king's daughter. The king decides to hang him. Johnnie is doped with lodomy [laudanum] and captured. He asks for a little b...

Hamish Henderson asks about songs from Rhynie, Lumsden and Strathdon. Hamish Henderson asks Maggie Stewart if she knows any songs from Rhynie or Lumsden, such as 'The Shepherd Lad o Rhynie', 'Lang...