Two of Barrowsgate’s newspaper colleagues decide to go to Muckle Fair in Aberdeen, pretending to be Buchan farm labourers looking for work. “Muckle Friday” was originally held in medieval times at the festival of Michaelmas on 29 September when the produce of the harvest would be sold in the stalls of the markets, and labourers from the surrounding areas would be hired for a new season’s work. It continued as the Muckle Fair into the twentieth-century.