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CHAPTER		PAGE
I	In Which the First Chapter Is Within a Little of Being the Last	[9]
II	Tending to Show That Misfortunes Never Come Singly	[18]
III	It Never Rains but It Pours	[31]
IV	Mrs. Vernon All but Abandons Hope	[44]
V	A New Way of Breaking into the Movies	[58]
VI	Bobby Endeavors to Show the Astonished Compton How to Behave	[72]
VII	The End of a Day of Surprises	[81]
VIII	Bobby Meets an Enemy on the Boulevard and a Friend in the Lantry Studio	[92]
IX	Showing That Imitation Is not Always the Sincerest Flattery, and Returning to the Misadventures of Bobby’s Mother	[104]
X	Bobby, Assisted by Peggy, Demonstrates a Method of Observing Silence, and Celebrates a Red-letter Day	[114]
XI	The End of One Scenario and the Outlining of Compton’s Great Idea	[128]
XII	Bobby Becomes Famous Overnight	[138]
XIII	Bernadette’s Temperament Delays the Scenario, and Mrs. Vernon Makes Two Children Happy	[150]
XIV	Mrs. Vernon Attends a Moving-Picture Show and Finds in It a Great Lesson Unthought of by the Author	[160]
XV	Compton’s Great Scenario Is Finished Not a Moment Too Soon	[166]
XVI	Containing Nothing but Happy Explanations and a Still Happier Love Scene	[180]
XVII	The Four Children Arouse Suspicion, until with the Most Momentous Event in This Narrative, All Is Made Clear	[196]

Bobby in Movieland

CHAPTER I
IN WHICH THE FIRST CHAPTER IS WITHIN A LITTLE OF BEING THE LAST

“Say, ma; honest, I don’t want to go in. Just all I want is to take off my shoes and socks and walk where the water just comes up to my ankles.”

As the speaker, a boy of eight, was dressed in the fashion common to the youth of Los Angeles and its environment, it is but fair to state that with the taking off of shoes and socks the process of disrobing was really far advanced.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER IIN WHICH THE FIRST CHAPTER IS WITHIN A LITTLE OF BEING THE LAST

CHAPTER I
IN WHICH THE FIRST CHAPTER IS WITHIN A LITTLE OF BEING THE LAST