Aye, I've had my share of write-ups in the press; I'd had them then, in the provincial papers.

But London was anither matter.
Still, there were those who knew that a new Scotch comic had made an audience like him.

It's a strange thing how word o' a new turn flies aboot amang those regulars of a hall's audiences.

The second nicht they were waiting for my turn, and I got a rare hand when I stepped oot upon the stage--the nicht before there'd been dead silence i' the hoose.

Aye, the second nicht was worse than the first.