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| Long before you could get yourself a date on the Internet, there were secretive ways to click with someone you fancied. Alasdair MacArthur came from Ealaisiadar. Alasdair Bàn was from Marisiadar. And high on their priorities were these two young women in Kilmaluag. One night the boys were at a loose end - wanting to go courting, but with no way of warning the girls. They decided they would send a telegram to Kilmaluag, but they loathed the idea of everybody knowing their business, as you can imagine. So the boys coded the message by scripting it "bicycle going down tonight (referring to Alasdair Bàn) - white horse following' (referring to Alasdair Macarthur). The story must have got out, or how would we be telling you it seventy or eighty years later? But never mind, there was one lucky Alasdair in this story because the visits on the white horse brought forth a bride for Macarthur. Alasdair MacArthur became the school officer for the district. If you were absent from school, he would reach your home to find out why. Alasdair died around 1953. His daughter is Ceiteag Macleod, who ran the Post Office in Cùl nan cnoc until 1998. |