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t-iCiURLS AND TH2 PiCTUREGOtR
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MOVING PICTURES AND MOVING CONVERSATION.
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THE McGABBS ENJOY A WAR DRAMA.
[Btout , red-faced Mrs. McGabb leading; short, thin, i -looking
Henry, her husband, following, and red-hair I; d I Willie
fetching up in tlie rear, the McGabb family trails d slein
search of a seat;hou da >■* t-Jncndred'feet of a coi
flickering on the sere m.)
Mes. Met;. : Hero's three seats, Henry, i'ouanfl Willie go in first
BO'S I can have the aisle
Willie: Aw. .Ma! Cum on clown front mare ! I wanna go .down front whoro 1 e'n watch the pianna Feller wiggle his cars !
Mrs. McG.: We'll sit h re, young man ! The pictures is easier lo vatch a little ways off.
Willie : Hut I wanna see the soldiers die, Ma !
Mi;s. McG. 'S~ • ■ i can see Vm die just as dead here ib yen can l ..rer. Tht re .' It s a comfort to get 'iff my feet.
Willie: Oh, goody! This is the war pitcher, new. Ma! The Uilion Spy. Tommy Jones says it's great ! Oh, lookit, Pa -lookit, ;he sojers on horseback ! Are them real seders. Pa. or just actors? iley. ain t the horses fat ! J that what makes the sojers legs stick jut ami makes Cm bounce SO? Lookit dn gallon. A\"hi< niakcs'eui tidk so scared. Pa . is i he enemy corain' ?
Mks. McG.: Not vet. I guess. I gness they're afraid tlioy'll tall off.
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Willie : Oh. lookit. Pa. there's gonna be a battle ! Zowic ! L.«>kit the sojers gcttin' -hot. Hey Pa, when they fill over dead, ain t they supposed to stay dead? Ditlja see that feller die and then open his eyes when the horse almost stepped on him?
Mu. McG.: He didn't want to;gethurt. He's got to tight again in the next battle.
Willie : Aw. Pa. them ain't real sojers. Why, they shoot without ainrin' or nothm'. That skinny one shot way overthc Ilea 1 •■! the one with whiskers and the one with whiskers fell right off his horse '. Oh! lookit. they're gcttin' licked. They're running away. Tin General told fm all to beat it! Say, Pa. 1 thought Genera armies of thousands and thousands of men and this one ai forty— I counted 'em. Ami some of them is dea \ !
Mrs. McG.: 1 think it was a -hame to make them asters fight hat ties in such a pourin' rain .' The poor things might get puctunony and die in real earnest.
THE Horses DCN'r RECOfeNlie THE CP*»EC>ft MfW
Wilt.ee : Aw. .Ma. that ain't rain' That's scratches on the Blunt— :i been usod so many time it's got all scratched up. Gee, 1 d like to've seen it when it Was new ' Say. Pa. 1 wonder what makes em wheel their horse like that every time. Oidja ever notice hew even time the sojers gel on their horses, instead of ridiu right .>fl . they wheel em arouml on their hind legami then go off ticket] -larrup '
Ml:. McG.: It ain 1 the -eldicrs. Willie, it the hor-eihem
Probably th camera-man hasn't shaved fm a week and the horses don't recognise him. They think hi face i a bnech of hay and th u when they see it ain't the;, 're scared to death
<mnt thex Supposed to srptt defm>?
'. out for the Story of
"TBE TAILOR OF BOND ST."
ia " PierTKEs" soon.