One is that a long tour is easy to throw oot o' gear.

Time is allotted long in advance, and for a great many attractions.

If one o' them loses it's week, or it's three nichts, or whatever it may be, it's hard to fit it in again.

And when a tour's been planned so as to eliminate so much as possible of doubling back in railway travel, everything may be spoiled by being a week or so late in starting it.
Then, there was another thing.

I was sure to be coming back to New York again, and it was as weel to leave the city when it was still hard to be buying tickets for my show.