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Cooper, James A.

"Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper"

I'd like to try actin'
before the cam'ra myself. But I cal'late I ain't got much 'screen
charm,'" the waitress added seriously. "I'm too fat. And I wouldn't do
none of them comedy pictures where the fat woman always gets the worst of
it. But you must take lovely photographs."
"I'm not sure that I do," laughed Louise.
"Land sakes! Course you do. Them big eyes o' yourn must just look
fetchin' in a picture. I don't believe I've ever seen you in a movie,
have I, Miss------?"
"Grayling."
"'Grayling'! Ain't that pretty?" Gusty Durgin gave an envious sigh. "Is
it your honest to goodness, or just your fillum name?"
"My 'honest to goodness,'" the visitor confessed, bubbling with laughter.
"Land sakes! I should have to change mine all right. The kids at school
useter call me 'Dusty Gudgeon.' Course, my right name's Augusta; but
nobody ever remembers down here on the Cape to call anybody by such a
long name. Useter be a boy in our school who was named 'Christopher
Columbus George Washington Marquis de Lafayette Gallup.


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