“This sort of thing makes me tired!” was Tom’s comment.  “I like to see outdoor life much better.”

Another one-reel comedy of life on the canal followed the parlor drama, and then there was flashed on the screen the words:  “His Last Chance.”

“Here we are!” murmured Sam, and sat bolt upright with renewed interest, while Tom did likewise.  The first scene of the drama showed the interior of a farmhouse sitting-room and kitchen, and the boys easily recognized several of the men they had seen at the river and the railroad station.  There followed quite a plot and a number of other scenes around the farm, and also at a stone quarry which all of the lads recognized as being located at Dexter’s Corners.  Then came a pretty love scene at the farmhouse, followed by a quarrel between some of the men in an apple orchard.

“Say, that’s Blinks’ apple orchard, just as sure as fate!” exclaimed Dick, in a low voice.

“So it is!” answered Sam.  “Many’s the time we’ve got apples there!”

The quarrel in the apple orchard was followed by a fishing scene on the river not far from Humpback Falls, where Sam once upon a time had had such a strenuous adventure.  Then of a sudden came the quarrel in the boat followed by the shooting.

“Say, that looks just as it did when we saw it taken!” exclaimed Sam, enthusiastically.  “This moving picture business is a great thing, isn’t it?”

“It isn’t just as we saw it,” chuckled Tom.  “They didn’t show how that fellow who went overboard came up again and swam ashore.”

“Oh, that would spoil the plot of the play,” answered his younger brother.

Other scenes in the drama were shown, one in a barnyard full of cows being especially realistic.  Then came the scene inside the railroad station at Oak Run, and all of the boys and Dora laughed heartily when they saw the look of astonishment on old Ricks’ face as he peered through his ticket window at the actor who had come in for a ticket.

“I’d give a dollar to have old Ricks here looking at himself,” whispered Tom.  “Wouldn’t he be surprised?”

“Oh, look! look!” exclaimed Dora, in a low tone.  “Sam and Tom, I do declare!”

The scene had shifted suddenly, as do all scenes in moving pictures.  Now was shown the platform of the Oak Run railroad station.  The train was coming in, and there were Sam and Tom as natural as life, dresssuit cases in hand, ready to get aboard.  The train stopped and some passengers alighted, and Tom and Sam climbed the steps of the last car.

“And look!  Tom is waving his hand to some one,” went on Dick’s wife.  “Isn’t it great!”

As the train began to move away, one of the leading actors in the drama was seen to rush across the platform and grasp the rail of the last car.  As he was holding himself up, another of the persons in the drama rushed after the train, shaking his fist wildly; then the train, with Tom and Sam and the moving picture actor on the back platform, disappeared from view, and in a twinkling the scene shifted back to the farmhouse once more.