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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.

Verses written by Willie Mathieson for his wife. At Willie Mathieson's request, Hamish Henderson reads a love poem that Willie wrote in 1935 for his second wife, Barbara, on their Silver Wedding a...

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.

The police called to a Horseman's Word initiation ceremony, and a lad taken to the asylum. Someone informed the police that a Horseman's Word ceremony was going on at Cairnie. The police came and ...

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...