My services were secured while I was in the States, to make my first re-appearance in Glasgow, on 1^st May, at the Empire Theatre in a two-weeks’ engagement.

I duly fulfilled it, and received such a welcome from crowded houses that one would have imagined I had been absent for years instead of months.  I opened with a new song which ran thus―

“Oh have you been to Yankee land?
That is where they do the grand.”