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45 in making an apparently desperate effort to scramble over the top. At last we got everything all ready, gave the word, and started the record machine to take the picture. Immediately the little comedy began the tramp appeared, looked around stealthily, saw the pie, hooked it, and was having a feast when out sprang the bulldog and seized him by the coattails. He thereupon sprinted to the fence and was about to carry out the rest of the programme, when, to our consternation, the boards gave way and he came down bang on top of the dog. The film had about ten seconds to run, and they were occupied in recording one of the liveliest scraps that ever happened. There was no hippodrome about it. Both parties were out for blood. When the fence fell, the bulldog had promptly transferred himself from the tramp’s coattail to the tramp’s calf, while that unfortunate person snatched up a broomstick and tried to pry him loose. They rolled over and over and put about fifty times as much action and animation in the last ten seconds as had been crowded into the preceding forty. We finally pulled them apart, and it was not until the negative was developed that we realized what a prize we had accidentally secured. That earnest and impromptu windup has convulsed audiences all over Christendom, and made fully as much of a hit in Europe as it did at home. It is old now, but it is still a sort of standby in the vaude- ville hpuses, and never fails to raise a laugh. If a man had a monopoly of such lucky flukes, he would soon get rich.” i !