"I never did it."
"I'll show you," offered Sandy, good-naturedly.
"Say!" cried Russ, "why not put Sandy in the picture, too?"
"Good idea!" exclaimed Mr. Pertell. "Sandy, get a hoe!"
"What! Me in movin' pictures? Why, I never acted in my life."
"So much the better. You'll be all the more natural!" said the manager. "Get in the focus, Sandy!"
And the young farmer did. The scene seemed to be going very well, and Paul and Alice in the rôle of country sweethearts made an effective picture in the green cornfield.
In the background Mr. Bunn, Mr. Sneed and Sandy were industriously hoeing corn. Suddenly the "grouchy" actor dropped his hoe, and pulling up one foot so that he could hold it in his hands, he cried out:
"There! I knew something would happen! I cut my foot with that old hoe!"
"Cut that out, Russ!" called the manager, sharply. "We don't want that in the scene."