A LEGEND has grown in Eigg and Uist about the ' Christ Child's Lullaby.' It tells how, when a hard stepmother had caused a shiftless lad to leave horn she one night had a vision of the Holy Mother lulling her Baby to sleep, and at her feet was the shiftless laddie. The stepmother's heart was touched, and she took the boy back and gave him her love. This is the lullaby, they say, that Mary the mother was singing. (The Gaelic verses wore written by the ' King-priest ' of Eriskay, Father Allan Mae donald, and the tune was noted from the singing of Mrs. John Masinnes. )
