There was method in my madness, tho', ye'll ken.

Here was I, nearer far to London, in Birkenhead than I was in Glasga.

Gi'en I was gae'in there some time, I could save my siller by going then.

So off I went-- resolved to go and look for opportunity where opportunity lived.
Ye'll ken I could see London was no comin' after me--didna like the long journey by train, maybe.

So I was like Mahomet when the mountain wouldna gang to him.