That's a fine trait, and it makes it easy to amuse them in the theatre.
I think I was mair nervous aboot my first appearance in New York than I'd ever been in ma life before.

In some ways it was worse than that nicht in the old Gatti's in London.

I'd come tae New York wi' a reputation o' sorts, ye ken; I'd brought naethin' o' the sort tae New York.
When an artist comes tae a new country wi' sae much talk aboot him as there was in America concerning me, there's always folk that tak' it as a challenge.
"Eh!" they'll say.

"So there's Harry Lauder coming, is there?
And he's the funniest wee man in the halls, is he?
He'd make a graven image laugh, would he?
Well, I'll be seeing! Maybe he can make me laugh-- maybe no.

We'll just be seeing." That's human nature.