But the actress who was to pretend to be a school teacher was so nice
that she soon made the little children feel at ease. Flossie and
Freddie loved her from the first, and each insisted upon walking along
with her, hand in hand.
"That will make a pretty picture," said the moving picture man. "Just
walk along the road, Miss Burns," he said to the actress, "with
Flossie on one side, and Freddie on the other. I'll take your pictures
as if you were going to school."
This was done. Flossie and Freddie soon forgot that they were really
"acting" for the movies, and were as natural as could be wished.
"I--I've got a fire engine!" said Freddie, as he trudged along with
the actress-teacher.
"Have you, indeed?" she asked pleasantly. "Don't look at the camera,"
she cautioned Flossie. "Just pretend it isn't there."
"And I've got a doll!" Flossie said, not to let Freddie get the best
of her.
"And my fire engine pumps real water," Freddie went on, "and I
squirted it on our cat and on the old turkey gobbler."
"Oh, but why did you do that?" asked the actress. "Wasn't that
unkind?"
"Oh, no!" exclaimed Freddie, his eyes big and round.
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