And what a glorious thing it was to roll right over and go to sleep again! Then there was the travelling, too.

I had always wanted to see Scotland, and now, in these fourteen weeks, I saw more of my native land than, as a miner, I might have hoped to do in fourteen years--or forty.

Little did I think, though, then, of the real travelling I was to do later in my life, in the career that was then just beginning! I made many friends on that first tour.

And to this day nothin' delights me more than to have some in an audience seek me out and tell me that he or she heard me sing during those fourteen weeks.

There is a story that actually happened to me that delights me, in connection with that.
It was years after that first tour.