18/21 I had just come on, and was doing the walk around before I sang my first song, when I heard him, from the gallery. It was no fair, for I had not sung a note. But we maun learn, on the stage, not to be disconcerted by anything an audience says or does, and, somehow, I managed to go on. They weren't afraid, ever, in yon days, to speak their minds in the gallery--they'd soon let ye know if they'd had enough of ye and yer turn. I was discouraged by that week in old Glasgow. |