For a moment there was excitement, and then the trained men of the sea got into action. Nearby there were several fishing boats, operated by gasoline motors. There were at hand, and rollers on which the craft could be launched in the surf, being eased along the slope by releasing a cable rigged to a post some distance away.  
It did not take long for the fishermen to launch one of these motor boats, and while C. C. Piper was struggling in the surf, endeavoring as best he could to climb into his overturned boat, they put out to rescue him.
 
“Do you want that in the picture?” asked Joe, who was at one of the cameras.
 
“No indeed!” cried Mr. Ringold. “It won’t fit in at all! He must drift . We’ll have to do all this over again.”
 
“I can see Gloomy doing it,” murmured Blake.
 
At that moment there came a hail from the .
 
“Hello!” he cried. “Are you going to—gulp—let me—glub—sink out here? Can’t some of you——” and the rest was lost amid a series of gurgles as the salty water got in C. C.’s mouth.
 
“Hold on just a little longer,” called one of the fishermen, as he directed the craft toward the struggling actor. “We’ll have you out presently.”
 
“You’d—better—hurry—up!” panted the comedian, who might well be excused at this moment from taking a gloomy view of life.
 
He managed to cling to one side of the dory until the rescuing motor craft reached him. Then he was soon hauled aboard, dripping wet, all but , and unable to utter a sound save sighs.
 
“Well, it was too bad,” said Mr. Ringold, when C. C. was once more ashore. “I guess we’ll have to get you a little larger boat.”
 
“Get me one?” asked the actor, with the accent on the personal pronoun.
 
“Certainly. We’ll have to do this scene over again. I guess we could use one of the fishing boats, though they’re a little large. But we can move the cameras back. Take one of those, C. C.”
 
“I guess not.”
 
“What’s that?”
 
“I said I guess not. No more for mine!”
 
“Do you mean to say you won’t go on with this act? Are you going to as you did in the Indian scene?”
 
“Say,” began C. C., earnestly, as, dripping wet as he was, he strode up to the man, “I can’t swim, and I don’t like the water. I told you that the time you took me up in the country, where we found these boys,” and he motioned to Blake and Joe, who were looking interestedly on, ready to work the cameras as soon as required.
 
“And yet,” went on Mr. Piper, “you insisted that I jump overboard then and rescue Miss Shay. Now you want me to drift in as a shipwrecked sailor. It’s too much, I tell you. There is too much water and tank drama in this business. I know I’ll get my death of cold, if I don’t drown.”
 
“Oh, can’t you look on the bright side?” asked Miss Shay, who was to come into the drama later. “Why, it’s so warm I should think you’d like to get into the surf.”
 
“Not for mine!” exclaimed C. C., firmly, and it took some on the part of the theatrical manager, accompanied by a promise of an increase of salary every time he had to go into the water, to induce C. C. to try the scene over again.
 
This time a larger boat was used, and, though it came near to capsizing, it did not quite go over, though considerable water was shipped. C. C. managed to stay aboard, and the cameras, rapidly clicking, registered each movement of the actor and those who later took part in the drama.
 
Then some shore scenes were photographed, the supposed shipwrecked persons building a fire, pretending to catch fish from the ocean, and cooking them.
 
All this the moving picture boys, or Mr. Hadley, faithfully registered on the films, to be later thrown on the screen for the delight of the public.
 
“I wonder if the folks who look at moving pictures realize how they are made?” said Joe, as they stopped work for the day.
 
“I don’t believe so,” answered Blake. “There are tricks in all trades, it’s said; but I guess the moving picture business is as full of them as any.”
 
The next two days were busy ones, as a number of elaborate acts had to be filmed, and the boys were kept on the jump from morning to night. Mr. Hadley, also, had all he could do with the camera. There were fishing views to get, scenes on the beach, wh............