"Spanish, eh?
If she's Spanish I'm a Swede right out of Switzerland.

Any-way, I never could like to smoke.

I started to learn one summer when I was eight.

Pa and Ma and I was out with a tent Tom-show, me doing Little Eva, and between acts I had to put on pants and come out and do a smoking song, all about a kid learning to smoke his first cigar and not doin' well with it, see?
But they had to cut it out.

Gosh, what us artists suffer at times! Pa had me try it a couple of years later when I was doin' Louise the blind girl in the Two Orphans, playin' thirty cents top.