But it's easy to forgie them--it's aye hard to bear a grudge in this world, and to be thinkin' always of punishin' those who use us despite-fully.
I've had my share of knocks from folk.

And sometimes I've dreamed of being able to even an auld score.

But always, when the time's come for me to do it, I've nae had the heart.
It was rare fun to sing in those concerts.

And in the autumn of 1896 I made a new venture.

I might have gone on another tour among the music halls in the north, but Donald Munro was getting up a concert tour, and I accepted his offer instead.