You canna treat an audience in any verra special way, just because you're anxious that it shall like you.

You maun just do your best, as you've been used to doing it.

I had this much in my favor--I was singing auld songs, that I knew weel the way of.

And then, tae, many of that audience knew me.

There were a gude few Scots amang it; there were American friends I'd made on the other side, when they'd been visiting.