But if he did not believe I could win an audience, what sort of man was he to be persuading a manner to gang against his judgment and gie me a chance in his theatre?
So I determined that I must see the managers mysel'.

For, as I've taul ye before, I'm an awfu' persistent wee man when my mind's made up, and no easily to be moved from a resolution I've once ta'en.

I was shaken a bit by the agent, I'll not mind tellin' ye, for it seemed to me he must know better than I.Who was Harry Lauder, after a', to set his judgment against that o' a man whose business it was to ken all aboot such things?
Still, I was sae sure that I went on.
Next morning I met Mr.Walter F.Munroe, and he was gude enow to promise to introduce me to several managers.

He took me off wi' him then and there, and we made a round o' all the music hall offices, and saw the managers, richt enow.

Yell mind they were all agreeable and pleasant tae me.