Letter from Jo Kose — Guide 



britches but i cant see any good uv em atall tha button 

 up in 3 places and u waste a lot uv valuble time that 

 way then tha are tite where tha orter be luce and baggy 

 where it woodnt hurt anyone if tha wus tite and if u should 

 get a sheep tick or a flea on you it would die of apoplexy 

 or old age befor you could get your pants off to kill it 

 well tha all piled out uv the automobils and ast if i wus 

 the gide and i says yes i am the hed gide and showd em 

 that nife that Fred Clark give me that says i am the 

 bigest gide and the best liar in Nova Scotia and when 

 tha seen who tha wus talkin to tha gut more respectful! 

 rite away and i helped em up to Fils camp with there 

 stuff i only made one trip as tha made me tak up a kupla 

 heavy suit cases wich tha sed contaned hare tonik and 

 ast if did i use it and when i told em if it cum in botles 

 i sure did tha sed it vnis grate to make hare grow and I 

 litle gurl jumps up on a chare and made me let her rub 

 sum on my hed it was grate and sum run down over my 

 face and into my mouth i told her not to waste it on my 

 hare as it would make the hare grow on a eel if he could 

 just drink sum direct rite inside his hed insted uv on it 

 and she done so and then we all had one and i singed a 

 shanty that one about the woman and her dead baby and 

 it made a big hit and when tha ast me to sing a sad one 

 i cum rite back at em and sed he who lafs loudest takes 

 up the most room it pays to show these city folks that all 

 the brains dont grow down in new york and that tha 

 can find sumone intelagent to talk to up in the woods, 

 and then we all had a small one sum put water with the 

 hare tonik and sed it went beter that way and tha 

 thanked me for showin em how to use it and then we had 

 sum more tonik and by this time the cook had supper 

 reddy and the fat man came in and begun to bawl out 

 everybody and when i invited him to have sum tonik 

 he ast whos is it and i cum rite back at him an ses every- 



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