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. "The gobbler was pinching our cat's tail, and Snoop was scratching the turkey. I had to squirt water on them to make them stop." "Oh, I see!" exclaimed Miss Burns with a jolly laugh. "Well, anyhow, my doll can open and shut her eyes," said Flossie. "So I don't care!" "That's enough of that scene," said Mr. Weston. "Now all you children crowd up around the school steps, as if you were going in after the last bell had rung. Pretend you are going into school." The village children were a little bashful at first, but Bert, Nan and Harry, taking the lead, showed them what to do, and after one trial everything went off well. The children grouped themselves about the actress-teacher, who clasped her arms about the shoulders of as many as she could reach. It made a pretty scene in front of the old school-house, with the green trees for a background. The use of the school had been allowed the moving picture company for the day. "Now play about, as if it were recess," directed Mr. Weston, after the first scene had been taken. "Be as natural as you can. And you grown folks please keep back out of the way," he asked, for Mrs. Bobbsey and a number of the fathers and mothers had come to see their children pose for the moving picture camera. By this time the children had lost their bashfulness, and were acting as naturally as though they really were at school. They played tag and other simple games, while the camera clicked their images on the celluloid film. Miss Burns, as the teacher, took part in some of the girls' games. "Now I want a larger boy and girl to walk down the road together, the boy carrying the girl's books," said Mr. Weston. "You'll do," he went on to Nan, "and you," to Harry. Soon the two cousins were strolling along, having their pictures taken. "I want to go with Nan!" cried Freddie "I want my picture taken some more." "Not now, dear," said Miss Burns, who was not in the scene with Nan and Harry. "Wait a little." "No, I want to go with Nan now," insisted Freddie, and he broke from the hand of the actress and rushed after his sister. "Oh, he'll spoil the picture!" cried Bert, solicitously. "Come back, Freddie; that's a good boy!" But Freddie did not intend to come back. "Nan, Nan! Wait for me!" begged Freddie.