“Oh, I don’t mind, as long as I got out before dark,” laughed Jan. “But I was scared for a little while.”
“I’ll see that it doesn’t happen again,” declared the director. “We have no further use for the box, since we have made the fox films, so I’ll have it taken away.”
A few days later most of the pictures intended to be filmed at Dawson’s Farm had been taken, and the company prepared to move on to the next location. Already some of the cowboys and other men and women connected with the company had left.
One last scene taken was where Mr. Tizzy, the funny flip-flop man, pretended to be a cowboy, riding a horse to lasso a pig. It was a lively affair. The animal used was not the savage boar that had nearly hurt Trouble, but a more gentle pig.
The Curlytops and their father and mother, as well as the Dawson household, laughed until the tears ran out of their eyes at the funny antics of Mr. Tizzy and the no less funny actions of the pig.
At last the flip-flop man lassoed the squealing pig, which, however, dragged the man off his horse and pulled him around the lot. And of all this the clicking cameras took many pictures which, later, made thousands of persons laugh.
It was this same afternoon that an express package came for Mr. Martin. It was a wooden box well wrapped in paper.
“What is it, Daddy? Oh, what is it?” cried Janet, dancing up and down in excitement.
“Oh, let him look first, Jan,” admonished Teddy.
“Ah, the album box has come back!” said the father of the Curlytops. “Now I won’t have to tell Mr. Cardwell it is missing. We can take it on the tour with us.”