Letter from Jo Kose — Guide 



other folks wus enjoyin my show and clapin and havin 

 a fine time the cook rung the bell and we all went up to 

 lunch and had sum more hare tonik and then another 

 one or 2. the fat feller sez i wus to take em over to the 

 river in the afternoon and as i wood have to work fast 

 id better have sum more hair tonik and i took sevral 

 and after lunch felt prety sleepy so jes dropt down fur a 

 nap under a tree when i woke it wus sundown, did yer 

 wate fur me and why didnt yer wake me i ast an aktoreen 

 i am sory to have held up the hole bizness. you didnt 

 she told me then i ofered to go out and do the hole show 

 over agin but tha sed it wus no nede and we had sum 

 more hare tonik and a kupla more and went to supper, 

 tha didnt go to the river after all but took a few pitchers 

 as well as tha could without me the fat boss told me rite 

 where we akted in the mornin, so we started the granny- 

 fone and did sum chemises and then i gut 3 other gides 

 and with 4 aktoreens we put on a old fashined country 8. 

 it wus a big hit i called it off and we swung them gurls 

 in grate stile you now how it gos : 



bow to your sweteharts 



trot out yer pet 

 balance yer korners 



swing em till tha sweat — 



prety thing aint it ? the boss he likes it so well he gits 

 the boys to bring in sum big lites and takes one pitcher 

 whilst we were dancin and sez it is grate i wus glad he 

 thot sumthing i done wus grate it rain fur a kupla days 

 and we staid in and used quit a lot of hare tonik and done 

 sum more uv them chemises and one steps only it takes 

 morn one step to do it and sum cheek dancin which was 

 to cheeky fur me then the boss fat man sez to take em 

 all over to the falls on the river after he seen us gides 

 shoot the rapids and do sum fansy stuff he reehearses 



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