With Gun ^ Rod in Canada 



bizness myself, bimby we all went out on the lak in 

 kanews i had 2 gurls with me the other gides each had sum 

 plus sum uv the aktors, the fat man stans on the warf and 

 makes us paddel arownd and tells us what to do but i 

 wus waching him close as the feller with him had a gun 

 and all hands had guns in the kanews and finnaly as we 

 wus all strung out and racing fur the warf the fat feller 

 yells to shoot so i jus stopped padlin jerked my old 45 and 

 tells him no you dont and lets fly a kupla shots near his 

 feet he makes a kupla buck jumps and fades away back 

 uv the boat hous and the others yell and holler and laii 

 and tell me to cut it out that he werent meaning no harm 

 but wus just tellin the kamra man to shoot at them with 

 the thinggumbob he wus turning a crank on. when i 

 learned he wus jus fooiin i told him it wus all rite to cum 

 out and he cursed me out sumthin wiked he sed i wus a 

 bad aktor and i cum rite back and sed he wus a good runner 

 it made a big hit it dont pay to let them dudes git away 

 with anthing like that, then as i seen no sense in what 

 tha wus doin and the boss wus yellin his hed off about not 

 gittin a desent pitcher i sez here you are then and i begun 

 doin stuntz in my kanew you now how i can handel a 

 kanew when i git started well i stood on my hed and 

 padled standin up and done the beever flip and all them 

 champeen stuntz and then tipped her over and swum 

 ashore with one uv the aktoreens and the kanew the other 

 sed she could swim o.k. then i dumped the water out 

 and dumb in over her stern and done a few more things 

 with her so the kamra man could git sum good pitchers, 

 did yer git em all rite i ast no he sez his kamra wus broke 

 then i ofered to do the tricks all over agin but he sed it 

 wus most lunch time and he wood have to use a quickker 

 open and shut her or words like em and them gurls akted 

 like tha wus sore the fat man seemed discuraged or sick 

 or sumthing and just set still rubbin his head all the 



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