Grannie Island's Ceilidh - Little Izzy Katie Morag


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# Katie Morag

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# Far away across the ocean

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# Katie Morag

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# Over the sea to Struay

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# Katie Morag

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# Far away, across the ocean

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# Katie Morag

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# Over the sea to Struay

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# Katie Morag. #

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LAUGHTER

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'I love parties.

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'And I reckon Grannie Island's are the best in the whole wide world.

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'They go on way past our bed time.

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'But as long as we've brushed our teeth and put on our jammies,

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'we're allowed to stay up.

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'Grannie Island doesn't call them parties,

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'she calls them ceilidhs.'

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Right then, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen,

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let's gather round.

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Who's ready, tonight,

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for some real entertainment?

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APPLAUSE

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I love it when my big boy cousins come to visit,

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especially when they're here

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for one of Grannie Island's ceilidhs.

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# Donald, where's your troosers? #

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Right, everyone, it's story time.

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And whose turn is it

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-to pin the tail on the island?

-Me! Me! Me!

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Me! Me! Me!

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Not this time.

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Jamie, I think it's your turn. Eh?

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We always play Pin The Tail at Grannie Island's ceilidhs.

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The children take turns sticking a wee pin onto the map of Struay.

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Then, one of the grown-ups tells us a tale about that part of the island.

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It's the Blue Eye Lighthouse.

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Now, who knows a story about the Blue Eye Lighthouse?

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-I've got one.

-Granma Mainland it is, then.

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This is a story about a wee girl called Gertrude Isabel Tyldesley,

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who was born right here on the island of Struay.

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Back in those days, folk knew her as Little Izzy,

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though it's been a good few years since anybody called her that.

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Nowadays, she's better known by another name -

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Grannie Island.

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Now, Izzy loved going to school.

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But she loved the summer holidays even more.

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The days seemed to go on for ever

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and Izzy would be out from morning till night

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playing with the other children.

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Then one day disaster struck.

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The summer holidays had just begun

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and little Izzy was looking forward to all the fun

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she was going to have,

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when all of a sudden she fell ill.

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And her face broke out in bright red spots.

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Now, Mrs Tilsley called the doctor

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and he came over from the mainland right away.

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He took one look at Izzy, gave her some horrible-tasting medicine

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and said that she had to stay in bed for the next three days.

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Poor Izzy.

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She was so bored. But the medicine worked

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and by the end of the week she was up and about again.

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But though she felt better, the spots were still there.

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Now, most folk didn't realise it,

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but Izzy was a shy girl.

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And sometimes she felt like the odd one out.

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Now, usually when she felt that way

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she just gritted her teeth and got on with things.

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But after a while the feeling would go away.

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But that was before her face had become covered in bright red spots.

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Now that it was, she worried that the others might tease her.

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So she kept herself hidden away inside the house,

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wishing those stupid spots would just hurry up and disappear.

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Now, she was bored and, oh, she was miserable.

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All they had in Izzy's house were dozens and dozens of books

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and most of them weren't even the type of books Izzy liked.

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Normally she'd help her mum feed the sheep and cut the peats,

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and in the evening they'd stroll along the beach

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collecting firewood and looking in the rock pools.

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But Izzy didn't even want to do that.

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Izzy's mum was beside herself.

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Children need fresh air and exercise.

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But Izzy point-blank refused to leave the house.

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She just lay in her bed getting paler and paler

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and more and more miserable.

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By the third day she was even off her food

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and this was a child who could eat five porridges

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and still have room for dinner!

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Yet, try as she might, Mrs Tilsley couldn't cheer Izzy up.

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Then one day Mrs Tilsley came in carrying a mysterious wooden casket

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about the size and shape of a shoe box.

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Izzy was extremely curious and asked her what it was for.

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"Oh, this is a very special box," her mum replied. "In fact...

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"it's a magic box.

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"It contains a secret that will make you feel a whole lot better."

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"Oh, well hurry up and open it," Izzy said.

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But it wasn't as easy as that.

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You see, the box was locked and no-one knew where the key was.

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But underneath this magic box somebody had written

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a set of directions.

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And if you followed them you would find where the key was hidden.

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Best of all, the directions pointed away from the village,

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so if Izzy went looking,

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there wasn't much chance of her bumping into any

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of the other children.

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By now the wee girl was desperate to feel better.

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So she got out of bed, put on her wellingtons,

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slipped the box under her arm, and set off to find the key.

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The directions sent Izzy on a long, long walk.

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All the way over the Hermit's Hut.

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Along the Boorachie Bog.

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Then up into the Fossil Cave.

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When she finally got there she started searching around

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and after a minute or two she found a rickety old wicker basket.

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Inside the basket there was a large glass bottle.

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And inside the bottle there was a tiny metal key.

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Izzy was so happy.

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But when she slipped the key into the box and opened it,

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she found that inside there, there was another slightly smaller box.

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And it was locked, too.

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Izzy turned it upside down and discovered that this box

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had a whole new set of directions written on it.

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The wee girl was determined to get to the bottom of this mystery.

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So she set off again right away.

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This time the instructions sent her past the Standing Stones,

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through the Windy Gap,

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and all the way up to Sir Robert's Folly.

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Where she found yet another glass bottle

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containing yet another key.

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She opened the second box.

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And you've guessed it - there was a third, even smaller box.

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Izzy couldn't believe it.

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But there was no way she could give up now.

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So she read the instructions and set off on journey number three.

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This time, the directions sent her past the Heron Wood,

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all the way up to Spider Gully along the Sea Bird Cliffs,

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until finally she arrived at the Blue Eye Lighthouse.

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When she got there she found a third bottle and a third key.

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Izzy opened the lid nervously, peeked inside and was overjoyed

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to discover a roll of paper tied up with a tiny red ribbon.

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She quickly untied it, unrolled the paper,

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and found a message written in very neat handwriting.

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It said,

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"To the finder of the secret,

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"you are invited to a picnic behind the Blue Eye Lighthouse.

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"Dress casual."

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And then she heard the unmistakable sound of her mum

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chuckling to herself.

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Izzy sprinted round to the other side of the lighthouse

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and found Mrs Tilsley sitting on a big tartan rug

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with a spread of delicious-looking sandwiches

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and the yummiest cream cakes she had ever seen.

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You might think Izzy would have been cross at being tricked like that,

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but she wasn't.

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Her mum knew that fresh air and exercise

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was what Izzy really needed.

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And this wild goose chase all around the island

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had been her way of making sure she got it.

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The two of them sat and ate until there wasn't a single crumb left.

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Then walked slowly back to the house.

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And as Izzy lay in bed that night, tired but happy,

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she had to admit that her mum had been right.

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The magic box really had contained the secret

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that would make her feel better.

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In fact, she felt so much better,

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that the following morning she went out

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and played with the other children until the sun went down.

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And you know what?

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They didn't mention her spots once!

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Who would have thought that Grannie Island was a shy wee girl.

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Well, I'm still shy but I hide it well.

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Alistair and Jane, time for some music.

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'We loved the ceilidh stories and always want to hear more

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'but Grannie Island always says the same thing - "Time for some music."

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'And by the time the grown-ups have finished dancing

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'we're usually fast asleep.'

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