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and now we hope that someone else will be able to keep up the interest, and carry on the work which Captain Frost has done so well.
cast (in order of appearance)—
Bill Grant—C. McLaughlin.
Soldiers—S. Leitch, J. Robertson.
Lance-Corporal Greenstock—P. Gilder.
Sergeant Lees—I. Smith.
Alf Higgins—M. J. Owens.
The Slave of the Button—9.. Irvine.
Captain Richards—G. Neill.
Lieutenant Alien—D. Marshall.
Orderly—A. Burns.
Lady Isabel Fitzpeter—K. Owens.
Mustapha—A. Kay.
Slave Girls—R. Bonar, A. Cassells, D. Crombie, K. Cockburn, I. McKenzie.
Male Slaves—G. Cunningham, P. Docherty, N. McConnell.
Liz. Walker—A. Hill.
Reverend Julian Davies—M. Scoggins.
Mrs Davies—M. McLaughlin.
Lord Dunwater—A. Morrice.
Producer—Captain M. J. Frost.
Stage Manager—Mr J. Finlay.
Settings—Art and Woodwork Departments.
Painted by—M. Hewgill, J. Sharp and E. Gillespie.
Wardrobe and Make-up—Mr V. H., Mrs M. F., Misses M. L. and J. W. Le Maistre.
Costumes Supplied by—Wm. Mutrie Ltd., Edinburgh.
Lighting—Mr A. N. Jamieson, P. Evans.
Stage Crew—C. A. Lannen, J. R. Willmott, J. W. Moore, J. S. Grigor, G. H. Fox.
NATIONAL TRUST CAMP, KINTAIL, 1965
Last year a party of school-leavers went to the National Trust camp at Brodick Castle on Arran. This year a similar party was sent to another National Trust camp, this time at Invershiel, near Kyle of Lochalsh, in Kintail. The party leader was again Mr Paterson, who has a wide experience of hostelling, and the boys who went were M. Owens, J. Welsh, N. McConnell, A. Broughton, N. dark, D. Nealon, J. W. Corrigan, R. Hewitt, E. Bonar, L. Curl, and J. McPhail.
These National Trust " adventure camps" are orgainsed for school parties of from 12 to 20 people. There are three in Scotland. Hostel-type accommodation is provided, the campers cooking for themselves, and the parties spend a total of six days at the camp, three of which are occupied in working for the National Trust, and the remaining three in recreation or other activities. On Saturday, 12th June, a bus- load of Glasgow schoolgirls plus Messrs. Bonar, Curl, Corrigan, and McPhail, along with Mr Paterson, left the School for Kintail. Three other members of the party were conveyed to the camp by the Commandant. The remaining four, who had been engaged either in
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the A.C.F. athletic sports in Edinburgh, or with the pipe band at Edinburgh Castle, were set the test of making their own way to Invershiel (170 miles away) on a small allowance of money. They started on Sunday morning. J. Welsh and A. Broughton reached the camp at 6.45 a.m. on the Monday morning, having spent l/3d each. M. Owens and N. dark came in just after midday on Monday, at a cost of 14/1 Id each, having indulged themselves in lodging at a Youth Hostel.
Invershiel was found to be no more than the hostel, the Kintail Lodge Hotel, and two or three cottages, perched on the pebbly eastern shore of Loch Duich, and encircled by the Wester Ross mountains. The nearest shop of any description, which was also a cafe, was at Shiel Bridge, a mile away, and the nearest grocer's shop was in Dornie, nine miles away. Funnily enough the nearest public bar was barely fifty yards
away from the hostel. The hostel itself was an old whitewashed Highland cottage with a rough flagpole outside the front gate. There was a wooden extension at the back of the house, where four boys slept. Inside there was a joint common-room and diningroom, with a long table, benches, a wooden sofa, a deep freezer, and one dart board complete with one dart. Adjoining this room was a dormitory with sleeping facilities for eight, and the kitchen. There was also a shower-room, which nobody used except Mr Paterson, because the water was cold. This was our home for six days, and very glad we were to get there after the day's work.
The day's routine began with reveille at 7 a.m. for the two boys who had been detailed as cooks for the day, and the table-layer-and-clearer, also detailed for the day, got up at 7.15. The rest were wakened some fifteen minutes later, and breakfast was about eight. After the washers-up for the day had done their job, and the hostel had been swept out and the bunks made, the day's work or " recreation " began. We generally got away between nine and ten, Mr Paterson driving us in what now must be a legendary dilapidated Bedford " Workobus " to wherever our work or other activity was to take place. Sometimes we went back to Invershiel for lunch ; sometimes we took packed lunches of sandwiches. Work usually finished about five o'clock, but by the time we had been driven back, put tools away, and cleaned up, it was normally seven o'clock before the evening meal was dispensed. The evenings were our own. There was a rowing boat at our disposal, in which some boys, under the eye of Mr Paterson, fished unsuccess- fully on Loch Duich. Others went out for walks in the immediate neighbourhood, or stayed in the hostel playing " dart ", a game peculiar to Kintail. Supper was at nine, and we usually went to bed between ten and eleven. We were surprised to find how full and tiring the day could be.
Work and recreational activities were varied and interesting. On our first work-day we dug a hole with picks and shovels, to find a water-pipe line. Eventually we found it, and watched two men doing the intricate job of joining two metal pipes. On another day we loosened rocks and earth, excavating
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