Sae it was the managers all laughed at the idea of anither, and the one or twa faint tries I made to get an engagement in or near London took me nowheres at a'.
Still and a' I was set upon goin' to the big village on the Thames before I deed, and I'm an awfu' determined wee man when ma mind's well made up.

Times I'd whisper a word to a friend in the profession, but they all laughed at me.
"Stick to where they know ye and like ye, Harry," they said, one and a'.

"Why tempt fortune when you're doin' so well here ?" It did seem foolish.

I was successful now beyond any dreams I had had in the beginning.

The days when a salary of thirty five shillings a week had looked enormous made me smile as I looked back upon them.