Some months after my first elocution exam, I stood up on the stage in front of the whole school to recite a poem, and was rewarded with this certificate (you may have noticed by now various spellings of both my names - the correct version is Anne MacKenzie!)
the poem was about a corbie (a crow) sitting in a tree telling me that if I climbed up I would fall ..... I am not going to attempt to reproduce the Scots version that I recited!