I don't know
about hitching up the horses, though."
"Better practice a little with Sandy, then," the manager advised.
"He'll show you how."
He gave Alice some written instructions, and then went over Ruth's
part in the play. Alice, resolving to learn how to hitch up a team,
went out to find Sandy.
It was much easier than she had expected to find it, to attach the
slow and patient horses to the mowing machine, and the young farmer
took her for a turn with it about the barn yard, so she would be
familiar with its operation.
"I think I can do it," said Alice, and two days later, the rehearsals
were ended and all was in readiness for making the film of the new
rural play.
Alice took her place on the seat of the machine, and began to guide
the horses around the edge of the hay field. The mower has a long
knife extending out from one side, and as the machine is driven along
the wheels work the mechanism that sends this knife--or, rather a
series of knives--vibrating back and forth inside a sort of toothed
guard, thus cutting the hay or grain.
"All ready, now," called Mr. Pertell to Russ, who was at the camera.
"Go 'long!" cried Alice to the horses, and the animals began their
slow walk. For a time all went well, and then a dog, coming from no
one knew where, ran at the heels of the horses, barking and worrying
them.
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