| Description | Members of the Stewart family tell a number of stories.
Tracks 1-2: Alec Stewart tells a story called 'The Cripple in the Graveyard' about a tailor with a disability who agreed to sit in a haunted graveyard for money and some cloth for a new suit and witnessed supernatural happenings which made him stand up and run
Tracks 3-5: Alec Stewart tells a story called 'King of the Liars' about a lazy young man called Jack who is thrown out by his father and leaves home to seek work. He tries to get a king's daughter to marry him by telling the king a story
Tracks 6-8: Alec Stewart tells a story called 'Naked in Prince's Street' or 'The Ugliest Man in the World' about himself when he was in the Territorials and visited Edinburgh. The story focuses on his encounter with a girl who claimed to be his cousin and the people he encountered while running away from the scene naked
Tracks 10-11: Kathy Stewart tells a story called 'The Bumbee' about a bumbee with a big family who goes out to do the shopping and experiences strange events on her way home
Tracks 12-13: Kathy Stewart tells a story called 'Jack and Three Wishes' which is another version of Jack and the Beanstalk, where Jack is given three wishes in return for his cow
Tracks 14-16: Kathy Stewart tells a story called 'Vinegar Bottle', about an old man and an old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle. The moral of the story is about greed
Track 17: Kathy Stewart tells a fragment of a story about a woman who waited for her husband to come home for 20 years. When he finally arrived he made the reply 'Oot!' to her question 'Whar Ya Been?' 0.42 mins
Tracks 18-22: Belle Stewart tells a story called 'The Old Blacksmith' about an old man in Aberdeenshire who worked as a blacksmith
Total: 56.27 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 1 of 2 KF549C0333880 |