I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.”
“No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.”