He was to throw the weight to the ground,
plainly with the notion that he would thus prevent the car from
running away. The simple device was, in fact, similar to that used,
at Gashwiler's strict orders, on the delivery wagon back in
Simsbury, for Gashwiler had believed that Dexter would run away if
untethered. But of course it was absurd, Merton saw, to anchor a
motor car in such a manner, and he was somewhat taken aback when
Baird directed this action.
"It's all right," Baird assured him. "You're a simple country boy,
and don't know any better, so do it plumb serious. You'll be smart
enough before the show's over. Go ahead, get out, grab the weight,
throw it down, and don't look at it again, as if you did this every
time. That's it. You're not being funny; just a simple country boy
like Wayne was at first." He performed the action, still with some
slight misgiving. Followed scenes of brother and sister offering
Mother's wares to the city folks idling on the porch of the hotel.
Each bearing a basket they were caught submitting the jellies and
jams. The brother was laughed at, even sneered at, by the
supercilious rich, the handsomely gowned women and the dissipated
looking men.
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