Fifteen years later they had done over 300 performances including radio, and regional and national television. In 1990 they released an album We’re Akin to Comedy and in 1992 they were invited to the Mariposa Folk Festival. One of the first stories that Bridget created for their act tells of how Bridget met her husband, Angus:

I wasn’t looking for a husband - I was looking for a cow. I put an ad in the paper for an Aberdeen Angus (cow). Angus lived out in the Aberdeen — out by Selkirk. He saw the ad and out he comes. He proposed to me on his knees. I was down weedin’ the garden; he got down with me. He asked if I’d like to be buried in his family plot. Foolish enough, I said, “Yes. ” I said I’d give him my hand in marriage all except the thumb — I wanted something to keep him under. The funny thing was that I never got my cow. All I got was a lot of bull. . . (1 O)

Jenny McQuaid & Theresa Wilson as “Bridget & Cicily." Photo courtesy of Jenny McQuaid.

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