Betty Is Still at Her Old Tricks

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Madcap Betty purloins a big ball of string, and thus armed, prepares innumerable traps for the peaceable inhabitants of the neighborhood. Bells are rung from a distance by means of a length of string, a stand full of crockery is fastened to the wheels of a motor car, and an old woman, deceived by an innocent-looking "lost" purse, which is mysteriously jerked away as she stoops to pick it up, causes the whole of the outside display of a fruit store to fall in hopeless confusion. Before long the whole district is in an uproar, and Betty finds it expedient to make herself scarce. A horse provides the means, and jumping upon its back, she gallops out into the open country, where she comes across a very human-being looking scarecrow. In an incredibly short space of time she has jumped to the ground, has fastened it on the back of her patient steed, and has herself taken its place. She then spurs it on with a lash on its flanks, the horse gallops away, and it is not at all unnatural that Betty's pursuers in the distance should fall to recognize that it bears only a dummy figure. Even when they do capture the runaway horse their rage blinds them for a few minutes to the deception, and they pound away at the unoffending dummy, whilst Betty stands giggling at the scene a couple of fields away.