As a rule I got along extremely well with my fellow performers, but sometimes they were inclined to look down on a mere comedian.

Yell ken that I was making a name for myself then, and that I engaged for some concerts at which, as a rule, no comic singer would have been heard.
One night a concert had been arranged by a musical society in a town near Glasgow--a suburb of the city.

I was to appear with a quartet soprano, contralto, tenor and bass.

The two ladies and the tenor greeted me cheerfully enough, and seemed glad to see me--the contralto, indeed, was very friendly, and said she always went to hear me when she had the chance.

But the bass was very distant.