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geant as magnanimously refuses — and Charlie receives the congratulations and farewells.
"Within the enemy's lines," Charlie is camouflaged as a tree trunk, his arms simulating branches, his eyes peering cautiously through a hole. The moving tree scratches its "rear" with one of its branches. It "freezes" stiffly as a squad of Germans march by. Three Germans camp near by. Hunting firewood, one approaches with an axe. He is about to chop Charlie down when he gets a poke in the rear. On another attempt he gets a knock over the head. A second soldier, puzzled, comes to investigate and is flattened alongside his comrade. The third suffers the same fate.
Meanwhile the sergeant, performing "more heroic work," is caught telephoning back to his line. About to be shot, he is saved by the Charlie-tree. Then a heavy German chases the moving tree into the woods. The confused German shoots a real tree, then finds his gun butt against the false tree, which gives him a poke before it steps off the stump on which it has mounted. Through the thickly wooded forest, the Charlie tree zigzags around the real trees, pursued by the fat German who bayonets numerous trees trying to locate the spy who becomes "invisible" at will. The camouflage is so perfect that not only the German but the audience is continually being fooled. Charlie finally escapes through a sewer pipe, in which his stout pursuer gets stuck.
Next Charlie enters through the door of the French girl's wrecked home and carefully closes it, although the walls are gone. Ascending to the second floor, open to the sky, he pulls down the shade of the remaining window frame and drops on the bed. The girl enters and, believing the sleeping man to be wounded, begins to soothe him, while Charlie steals sly glances at her. When she discovers him to be undamaged, she asks, "Parlezvous franc.ais?" He shakes his head, and the girl becomes