out and
go on from there. Hold the carriage where it is, Ruth," he called.

"All right," she answered, for she had now quieted the restive horses.

"Don't be afraid, boy," said Alice to the lad. "You won't be hurt."

"And won't they hurt pap's cow-critters, neither?"

"No, indeed. It was all a mistake."

"I--I didn't know there was no war goin' on," remarked the lad, as he
sent an intelligent dog he had with him after the straying animals. "Me
an' pap we lives away over yonder on t'other side of the mountain. An'
we don't never hear no news. I was plum skeered when I seen all them
ossifers. Thought sure I was ketched, same as I've heard my grandpap
tell about bein' ketched in the army. He was a soldier with Sherman,
and I've heard him tell about capturin' cow-critters when they was on
the march."

"Well, this would be like old times to him, I suppose," said Mr.
Pertell. "But this is only in fun, my boy--to make motion pictures. So
take your cows away and we'll go on with the work. Drive 'em on," and
the boy did so with a curious, backward look at the girls in the
carriage, and at the Union soldiers, who were going back to their places
to get ready anew for the skirmish charge.

"And this time we'll have it without cows," said Mr. Pertell. "They
might go all right in a film of Sherman's march, but not in this
skirmish fight. All ready now. Take your places again."

The preliminary advance of the carriage, containing Ruth and Alice had
been filmed all right. Very little need be cut out. Once the cows were
beyond the camera range, Russ again began grinding away at the film.

"Now come on--Union soldiers!" cried the director.

From their waiting place Lieutenant Varley led his men; and as they
swept on past the carriage, Alice and Ruth registering fear, the
Confederates rushed out to meet them.

Then began the skirmish. Guns popped. Horses reared, some throwing their
riders unexpectedly, but this made it all the more realistic. Men
fought hand to hand with swords, using only the flats, of course. Horses
collided one with another, and the animals seemed to enter into the
spirit of the conflict fully as much as did the men. There was a rattle
of rifles, but no cannon were used in this scene.

Russ and his helpers filmed it, and, standing behind them watching the
mimic fight, was the director, shouting orders through his megaphone
and, when he could not make himself heard in this way, using a field
telephone, ca