I always looked for a letter, but for a long time I was disappointed each evening.
Then, finally, the letter I had been looking for came.

It was from J.
C.MacDonald, and he wanted to know if I could accept an engagement at the Greenock Town Hall in New Year week, for ten performances.

He offered me three pounds--the biggest salary anyone had named to me yet.

I jumped at the chance, as you may well believe.
Oh, and did I no feel that I was an actor then?
I did so, surely, and that very nicht I went out and bought me some astrachan fur for the collar of my coat! Do ye ken what that meant to me in yon days?
Then every actor wore a coat with a fur trimmed collar--it was almost like a badge of rank.

And I maun be as braw as any of them.