Letter from Jo Kose — Guide 



Or, How a Nova Scotia Woodsman Assisted the 

 Movie Actors 



FiLs CAMP, Sep. I, 1920. 



DEAR DAN, — You onct ast me to rite you about 

 the moving pitcher outfit, and how tha cum 

 out when down here, tha wus the movenest bunch 

 i ever seen, but if it werent for yours truely tha woodnt 

 uv dun much. Well i mite as well begin at the beginin 

 as to start at the end so here gos. one day i hered a 

 rumpus out the road aways and it sounded like a circus 

 wus cumin rite into our woods. Well i expected them 

 but not till the next day so wus sirprised. well in cum 

 3 automobils loaded chuck full of aktors and actorines 

 (i lerned from the bunch that a cow aktor was a aktorine 

 so spring it on you it is a new one) yessir tha wus loaded 

 to the gards and one busted a tiar cumin in and one had 

 a leaky radeator and she lost her water the feller that 

 stered her told me but you no tha is a lot uv waterin 

 brooks on the road and so tha could keep stopin and filin 

 her up. Tha wus loaded allrite but gut here at last yellin 

 and singin like anything tha wus to aktors that wus all 

 dolled up and smelt like wimmen and to regular men that 

 run the kamra and a big fat feller that had a lot 2 say and 

 five gurls dressed up in them dude pants hie laced boots 

 and rigged out like men all cept the hare, you could not 

 tel em frum men cept by the hare and smell unless you 

 dance with em or sumthen tha called them pants ridin- 



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