' The Voice from the Edinburgh
Gallery '
JAMES AGATE
When the famous actress Mrs. Siddons toured Scotland she met with no success. Everywhere audiences were either completely silent or hissed her. At length, at Edinburgh, a small reward came her way. At the end of her great scene in one of her plays when she had finished delivering the longest and most eloquent speech in her repertoire, a voice from the gallery was heard saying, ' No sae bad ! ' It is the owner of this voice who is the subject of James Agate 's Imaginary Biography.