They roared, they danced, they hullaballoed, they pinched one another; they behaved like young savages – but I knew I had got them safe.

Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?

I trapped the girls inside their tent / Someone tattled on me / Put a frog in the bathroom vent / Someone tattled on me / Gave my dinner to a bear / Put a snake in Auntie's chair / And a tick in Gramp's rootbeer / Someone tattled on me

Many of them are one-time pupils of Pece Atanasovski, until his recent untimely death the finest gajda player in the country, and leader of the very fine Radio Skopje (now Macedonian TV-Ratio) ensemble, the Ansambl na Narodni Instrumenti, with which he recorded frequently.