“I guess it’s a wild animal trap, all right,” Ted remarked. “It smells so,” and he sniffed the air.
“Do you think they catch bears here?” asked Janet.
“Maybe,” assented Ted.
“Then let’s run home,” suggested his sister, for it was now getting dusk in the woods, though it was lighter out in the open.
Ted took out the sticks and stones from beneath the door, letting it drop into place again.
“So nobody else will be caught,” he explained.
Then he and his sister hurried back to the farmhouse.
“Say, now, that’s too bad!” exclaimed Mr. Birch, the movie director, when he heard what had happened. “We did have some wild animals in that box, but they were foxes, not bears. And we didn’t trap the foxes—we just held them in that box so we could let them run out when we wanted to take moving pictures of them.
“We hid the box in the bushes so it wouldn’t show in the picture, and the door was pulled up by a long rope. After we filmed the foxes some of the men must have left the door open, taking off the ropes. So it was turned into a regular trap, though we didn’t intend it as such.
“The door thus left propped up, when Janet went in she must have ‘jiggled’ it, as she says, so it dropped into place. I’m mighty sorry about it, little girl!”