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Merton of the Movies

CHAPTER III
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Then he tiptoed softly from the hallowed confines of a good woman's boudoir and clattered down the back stairs to the kitchen.

He was thinking: "I certainly got to get me another gun if I'm ever going to do Two-Gun Benson parts, and I got to get the draw down better.

I ain't quick enough yet." "Well, did you like your rig ?" inquired Metta genially.
"Oh, it'll do for the stills we're shooting to-day," replied the actor.
"Of course I ought to have a rattlesnake-skin band on my hat, and the things look too new yet.

And say, Metta, where's the clothesline?
I want to practise roping a little before my camera man gets here." "My stars! You're certainly goin' to be a real one, ain't you ?" She brought him the clothesline, in use only on Mondays.

He re-coiled it carefully and made a running noose in one end.
At two Lowell Hardy found his subject casting the rope at an inattentive Dexter.


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