There's nae telling when we may need all her strength.

And when we do it'll be for her government to rouse the country and mak' it realize what it means to be at war wi' the Hun.

We think you can do that better than any man we could be sending there--and you can do it best because you'll no be there just for propaganda.

Crowds will come to hear you sing, and they'll listen to you if you talk to them after your performance, as they'd no be listening to any other man we might send." In Washington, when I was there before Christmas, I saw President Wilson, and he was maist cordial and gracious tae me.

Yon' a great man, for a' that's said against him, and there was some wise men he had aboot him to help him i' the conduct of the war.