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My Ne/gbbors in Yio
K.C.B.
IF I had to work. IN MOTION pictures. I'D LIKE to work.* FOR CHARLIE Chaplin. AND WHY that's 'so.
IS THAT Fm lazy* ' AND HAVE a horror. OF BEING rushed' ' AND JUST for instance.
occasionally' "
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ON AN afternoon.
I DRIVE myself.* TO THE Chaplin I'ot. AND FIND a chair. " AND SIT me down. AND WATCH the'm'work. AND AFTER a while. ALONG ABOUT four. OR THEREABOUTS. THE WORKING ceases. AND EVERYBOd'y! GOES hustling' off. AND SOMEBODY comes. WITH A little table.' TO WHEREVER it is. THAT CHARLIE 's.' AND PUTS it dow'n.' AND TEA is brought. AND SANDWICHES. AND IF it happens. YOU'RE A friend of Charlie's. YOU SIT with h'ira. ' AND DRINK your tea. AND TALK with 'him. AND FOR thirty minutes. OR WHATEVER the time. IT'S JUST the same. AS THOUGH you'sat. IN AN English home.
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WITH NOTHING but leisure. AHEAD OF you. ' AND THEN all at' once. THE RECESS ends* '
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AND A whistle blows. AND EVERYBOd'y! COMES HUSTLING back. AND ANYWAY. ON THE day I write. IT'S BEEN two years. AND SOME added* months. SINCE CHARLIE began. ON "CITY Lights*"' AND TODAY it's*done.
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AND IN its making. TEN THOUSAND* persons. DREW PAY checks.' FOR WHATEVER* the time. THEY WERE at work. AND ON every day. NO MATTER the*sc'ene. THAT WAS being*shot. CHARLIE TOOK tiiiie. TO DRINK his tea* " AND I recall. A YEAR ago. I THINK it was.*
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ON A summer day.
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AND I went out. TO THE Chaplin Tot* AND THE gateman said. THERE WAS no'body there. AND NOBODY 'w*or"king. OR ANYTHING. AND THEN I fo'undl THAT FOR four days. THEY'D CUT out*work. SO THAT Charlie could go. TO THE tennis matches.
WHERE WORLD-famed players.
WERE IN tournament.
AND THAT'S m'y*id'ea.
OF MAKING pi'ctures.
OR WRITING boJks.
OR SELLING groceries.
OR ANYTHING. * '
AND I'D like to' work.
FOR A bird like' that.
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AND IT'S nobody's business. EXCEPT JUST Ch'ariie's.
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FOR IT'S his own money. THAT HE'S working with. AND NO bank owns him. OR ANYTHING.' ' AND IF it happens. HE WANTS to I'oa'f.* AND LET the workers. ON HIS yearly s'taff.' HAVE A few da'ys'off. HE DOESN'T even. '
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HAVE TO say he's sick.
HE CAN go right out.
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WITH HIS conscience clear. AND IN good health. AND ENJOY hi'msel'f. AND AS I've sai'd * '
IF EVER it happens.'
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I AM an actor.
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AND I'LL have to hurry.
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IF I'M going to be. I WANT to wor'k.* ' FOR MR. Chaplin* * INSTEAD OF some guy. WHO DOESN'T li*ke' tea. IN THE afternoon. OR NEVER goes. TO A tennis match. I THANK you.