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PETE "PROPS"
lilt. CONTINUED PLAIN! Ol \ PICTURE PRORIR1Y MAN — 111! I'lLOIS SHIPS OF mi. DIM Rl
By Kenneth McGaffey
Drawings by L. W. Gale, Jr.
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I'M troo. Me for de road show just as soon as 1 can collect me wages, an me, (rid me kiester — me satchel — in me mit. — back to Chicago. I'm just goin to dissolve out of dis silent drammer while ile dissolvin is good. Dose dat like de caperin chromos can have dem — I don't crave no more. If anyone had of told me I would have fell for what I fell for last week, I would of busted dem in d e jaw. Desert stuff!!! An I walked into it like I liked it — wid me eyes wide open an a smile on me map. It's bad enuff to have to juggle boxes out of de stage door in a blizzard, but dat ain't nuttin wid jugglin camels an animals wid de thermometer a million degrees in de shade — an no shade.
I want to declare meself right now dat de camel is de woild's most onery animal. If I had
one of dere dispositions I would bite meself an die in a foamin fit. An I was de chaperoney for two of dem for nearly a week. I tucked dem in dere little beds every night an washed dere little faces every sun-up. In between I was wearin out perfectly good scantlin on dere moth-eaten hides. Nuttin will ever get speed out of a camel except de dinner bell.
It was dis way — none of de nut direc
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tors was a'needin any props so I was standin out on de stage in plain view, takin de mornin to dust off a couple of chairs so dey would know 1 was on de job, even if de chairs was to go back to de furniture company. I am a toilin away dere on dese two chairs, for maybe a couple of hours; when de boss props dashes out an says, '"Pete, would you like to take a littletrip?"
I been itchin for a chance to look out of a car window for some time so widout findin out anyting about it, I says, "Shure !" "All right," he says, "put de old tooth brush in de kiester, you start for Indio tonight at eight."
I don't know where dis location is but I figures it will be pretty soft an maybe I can get a swim or a few trout every day. Dere ain't no fuss around de prop room so dere can't be much stuff to work. Probably all I got to do is to look after a couple of grips an be round so de nut director will have someone to bawl out. All of de prop guys come clusterin round and tell me what a soft time I'm goin to have an how dey all wishes dey could go. I should have smelt a mice, but I didn't. One of de guys staked me to a fishin rod an another to a bathin suit. Dey told me dat dis Indio was by de side of a beautiful
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Say — / just ate it up !