It was in America I first came sae close to an audience as to hae it up on the stage wi' me.

My Peggy sings sae saftly When on my pipe I play, By a' the rest it is confest, By a' the rest, that she sings best; My Peggy sings sae saftly, And in her sangs are tauld With innocence the wale of sense, At wauking of the fauld.

Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

You're saying I've talked sae much about hoo fond I am of travelling.

My Peggy smiles sae kindly Whene'er I whisper love, That I look down on a' the town, That I look down upon a crown; My Peggy smiles sae kindly, It makes me blythe and bauld, And naething gi'es me sic delight At wauking of the fauld.

But I could see, even then, that, there were men who did no feel sae easy in their minds over the strike.

sae hie; She shines sae bright to wyle us hame, But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee! Wha first shall rise to gang awa, A cuckold, coward loun is he!

Some said the lady wasna innocent; and doubtless Mr. Napier thought sae, for he took high dealings wi' her, and looked at her wi' a scorn that would have scathed whinstanes.

'Never mindnever mind, sir!' said she; 'there is no harm done;' and she spoke sae proper and sae kindly, I was in love wi' her very voice.

But still there's more tae be done, and it's for you and me and all the rest of us that didna suffer sae to do it.

O pale, pale now those rosy lips I aft hae kissed sae fondly!

During the war, whiles I'd speak aboot this or that after my show, people paid an attention tae me that wad have been flattering if I hadn't known sae well that it was no to me they were listening.

And I laughed sae hard I fell clean off the stool they'd set me on!

O may He whose blessed will was pleased to leave him an orphan sae soon, preserve him from the fate which I tremble to think on!

Hoo comes it folk can lose their self-respect sae?

That's what my wife tells me, noo that she's read sae far.

Weel may the keel row That my laddie's in "O who is like my Johnnie, Sae leish, sae blithe, sae bonnie; He's foremost 'mang the mony Keel lads o' coaly Tyne He'll set and row sae tightly,

When, sitting sae mournfully at the door, I saw my Jamie's wraith, for I couldna think it he, Till he said, "I'm come back for to marry thee.

It was in the Metropolitan Opera Hoose, that great theatre where Caruso and Melba and a' the stars of the opera ha' sung sae often.

But here's the thing that touched me sae greatly.

Folk there like to gae to a show o' a nicht wi'oot travelling sae far frae hame after dinner.

Skinner took no part in it, till one minister remarked to him, "The great faut I hae to your prayer-book is that ye use the Lord's Prayer sae aften,ye juist mak a dishclout o't."

"Weel, aiblins sae," retorted John, "but that mayna be for want o' ministers.

It was cruel hard, and it hurt me sore, to think I'd worked sae long and so hard and got nothing for it, but there was no use greetin'.

They're aye sae busy writin' begging letters or working it aroond sae as to get to see a man or a woman they ken has mair siller than he or she needs that they ha' nae the time to mak' any effort by their ain selves.