And, whiles, I think that in ane of my songs I'm doing, on a wee scale, what a gifted author does in a novel of character.
Aweel, it went straight to my heart, the way those critics wrote about me.

They were not afraid of lowering themselves by writing seriously about a "mere music hall comedian." Aye, I've had wise gentlemen of the London press speak so of me.

They canna understand, yon gentry, why all the fuss is made about Harry Lauder.

They're a' for the Art Theatre, and this movement and that.

But they're no looking for what's natural and unforced i' the theatre, or they'd be closer to-day to having a national theatre than they'll ever be the gait they're using the noo! They're verra much afraid of hurting their dignity, or they were, in Britain, before I went to America.