constructed; left to later Caledonian Club members were the main- 
     
     tenance of the image and the colouring in of the details. Other events like 
     
     parties, public lectures, and Burns’ Concerts would be added and then 
     
     removed from yearly agendas. The original Caledonian Club objectives 
     
     and the annual menu of general meeting, Highland Games, and St. 
     
     Andrew’s Day dinner would, with few exceptions, remain unchanged. 
     
    

    
     Only minor additions were made to the lineup of activities for 1865. 
     
     Even the office-bearers differed little from those of the year before.'7 
     
     The first notice for the “Second Annual Gathering of the Caledonian 
     
     Club of RBI. and International Competition” appeared in the 
     
     Examiner’s 5 June edition, the term “International” being added to the 
     
     title to permit entries in the events by competitors from the United 
     
     States, Canada, and Newfoundland in addition to those from New 
     
     Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and, of course, Prince Edward Island. Prizes 
     
     were, once again, to be awarded in the following areas: putting the stone; 
     
     heavy and light hammers; long and high leaping; foot, hurdles, sack and 
     
     youth races; tossing the caber; proficiency in Highland pipe music; Gillie 
     
     Callum or sword dancing and Highland fling; and the best Highland 
     
     costume (of Prince Edward Island manufacture). ‘5 
     
    

    
     The Games were set for 16 August. Two days before, the Examiner 
     
     once again came out with a column of guarded praise for the Caledonian 
     
     Club and for the Scots: 
     
    
   
   
    
     The only fault we have with the Caledonians is, that they 
     
     claim, as peculiarly their own, all the best music, all the best 
     
     poetry, and all the most spirit-stirring games that were ever 
     
     devised by human genius, when it is as clear as mud —- (see 
     
     Mooney’s History of Ireland for proof) — that all the best 
     
     music, all the best poetry, and all the best games are clearly of 
     
     Irish origin. However, we are not going to quarrel with the 
     
     Sons of the Gael simply because their forefathers committed 
     
     petty larcency in the way of the fine arts on their brother 
     
     Celts: it was a national pastime in the “ould, ancient days of 
     
     antiquity,” for one nation to filch all that was good from 
     
     another; and if the Irish tried to steal from the Scotch 
     
     anything that was worth stealing — and we suppose they were 
     
     not over scrupulous — they made a great mistake in not 
     
     stealing some of the Scottish thrift and cunning, which would 
     
     have made all their other acquisitions valuable. ‘9 
     
    
   
   
    
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