We planned our tour carefully.

First we went all aboot, to the towns we planned to visit, distributing bills that announced our coming.

Shopkeepers were glad to display them for us for a ticket or so, and it seemed that folk were interested, and looking forward to having us come.

But if they were they did not show it in the only practical way--the only way that gladdens a manager's heart.

They did not come to our concerts in great numbers; indeed, an' they scarcely came at a'.