“That’s fine!” cried Mr. Birch, with a laugh. “You children will be in the movies some day. It’s a good thing you fell off, Ted, even if it was accidental at first, for it gave me an idea. That’s the way it often happens in this sort of work—accidents, many times, make the best scenes.”
“I thought sure he’d spoiled the picture when he slipped off,” confessed Janet, when the cameras had stopped grinding.
“I did, too,” admitted Ted. “I’d like to see how I looked when I fell.”
“We’ll let you do that some day,” promised the director. And I might say that, later in the season when they were back home, the Curlytops saw this picture, in which they had had a part in making, shown in the Cresco Theater. Ted beheld himself running after the pony and slipping from its back in a queer way that made him laugh. All who saw it also laughed, including Ted’s friends and playmates. As for Trouble, when he saw himself and Janet on the pony, the little fellow let out a scream of delight.
So, all in all, though at first it seemed as though their efforts were going to fail, the initial appearance of the Curlytops in the movies was quite a success.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin liked it very much at Dawson’s Farm, and only for the fact that he had planned to make a tour induced the father of the Curlytops to carry out the idea.
“It would be nice to stay here all summer,” he said to his wife.
“Yes,” she agreed. “But I would like a little change, and so would the children. I want to get near a lake or a large river for a week or two.”
“Yes, I’d like that myself,” said Mr. Martin. “And if I can manage it we may take a motor boat trip. We’ll stay here until Mr. Portnay sends back that box of albums, and then we’ll travel on.”
“You ought to hear from him in a day or so,” said Mrs. Martin.