It was held in the school and the children scarcely recognised the place, for a platform had been erected and tastefully arranged with curtains from the Manse drawing-room, bowls of flowres from the Lodge and a highly coloured carpet from the schoolhouse. A variety of oil lamps, with reflectors improvised from the lids of old biscuit tins, served as footlights and made us feel that they were real artists... The schoolmaster was all on edge, not because he was down for a violin solo but because the choir of children was responsible for the opening item. But they rose to the occasion in'Ye Mariners of England', followed by 'Let the Hills Resound with Song.' Bella and Jeannie Irvine delighted with a duet; Walter Ross, the most juvenile performer, recited as boys of his tender age do, and there was an excusable stamping of feet when Miss Flora Maclean from Arileod roused us to a high pitch of enthusiasm with her Highland selection on the piano. Variety was lent by the Manse boys who appeared as nigger minstrels.... The programme would not have been complete without the bagpipes; and Calum Kennedy and Johnnie MacFadyen gave of their best - the music which we had been hearing from the Manse as they practised at Benmeanach and Ballyhough for weeks before the concert. But then it ended; the customary votes of thanks to chairman and performers have been given with heartiness; then the homeward trek. Full five miles of rough road we footed it; but what was distance when the heart was young and youth and beauty stepped out in unison?