Letter from Jo Kose — Guide 



long ligged tank that drink so much hare tonik up in the 

 cabin etc. i new that fat gi wus a crook the minit i furst 

 seen him and here he wus planing to shoot up the hole 

 bunch the nex day. the young feller says sumthin about 

 the lite and then old smarty he explans that the lite 

 wood be good enuff out over the water even if the sun 

 didnt shine and to reehearse the gides and all well befor- 

 hand etc. what he sed about the hearse wood have made 

 your skin craul i nowed he wus mene but i did not think 

 he wus mene as all that so i conkluded to put a spoke in 

 his weel fur him. after breckfus all hands were out in 

 front uv the cabin the gurls wus dressed like wimmen 

 and all had a sort uv yaller look like tha had janduce 

 i ast what wus the mater and told em to drink sum herb 

 tea or eat a live frog apeace and it wood stop it rite away 

 but it seams that it was paint on there face and not the 

 belly ack that wus making em yaller tha sed it made em 

 redj ester better whatever that is in english sumthin 

 smutty i'll betcher. one uv the men had a big kamra set 

 up nere the portch and one uv them she-men aktors wus 

 struttin arownd and bullyraggin a kupla gurls and all 

 at onct he pulls a gun on them gurls and the old fat man 

 yells that tha are rotton and tha begin to cry and carry 

 on so i jus jumps in and takes his gun away and slaps him 

 across the mouth and saves the gurls and ruffs him up 

 sum and everyone laffs and the aktor gits sore and the 

 fat man akts discuraged like and tells me the young man 

 is jus play-aktin and to leve him be i gives him a shove 

 when i lets go uv him fur luck anyways and he bumps 

 hisself on a rock, them to gurls liked it bekause tha begin 

 to laff where tha wus cryin in the same place and thats the 

 princepul thing to plese the ladys. the fat man tells me 

 to reestrain myself and try to kepe out uv the pitcher 

 when he started his litle game i didnt tell none uv the 

 other gides about the plot as i figgered i could handel the 



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