He taught me to look for the gude in a' I saw and came in contact wi'.

There's a bricht side to almost a' we meet, I've come to ken.
It was a strange thing, the way Mac drew comic things to himsel'.

It seemed on our Galloway tour, in particular, that a' the funny, sidesplitting happenings saved themselves up till he was aboot to help to mak' them merrier.

I was the comedian; he was the serious artist, the great violinist.

But ye'd never ha' thocht our work was divided sae had ye been wi' us.
It was to me that fell one o' the few heart-rending episodes o' the whole tour.