So back to the three great prizes I was {and am} so proud of-it's sobering to note the prize money: ten pounds for the March, the same for the Strathspey & Reel and five pounds for the Jig. Set against the cost of perhaps $3000 for the trip, it's clear I was not doing this for the money. Knowing the tone of my comments to Gen. Richardson, it's a delicious irony to hear him speak in the newspaper report of the "sporting way" in which I took the news. Still, I did manage to keep my head down during the entire imbroglio and for this I thank John MacFadyen, my tutor at the time, who called me aside that morning and gave me succinct advice: "Keep your bloody mouth shut." I did. How right he was. The event soon blossomed into a full-blown scandal.
( Bill Livingstone )
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