Barks' preliminary "shooting script" contains an opening scene which is very different from the one he eventually drew. He revised this page in manuscript, adding the working title "Hard-Earned Reward", which he retained until the very last draft.
This is how the early opening scene went in the shooting script:
1-2-3-4-5-6 TITLE.Box (It's a bad day at the Junior Woodchucks' Clubhouse!)
Water leaking from above. Rain shows through window. Kids and O. inside show empty piggy bank and some cookie jars.
Officer: "Rain is pouring, and our roof leaks!"
Kid shakes upside down piggy bank: "And we can't buy new shingles - our treasury is empty!"
Other kid by cookie jars: "The only eats we have left are these cookies we bought from the Litllest Chickadees!"2. O: "(Sigh!) Those Litllest Chickadees! They sold cookies and used the money to reroof their clubhouse!"
K: "We'll have to ration these cookies, great NUTWAFER!"
8. Kid: "While we ribble [scrapped: over cookies] sparingly we'll look for work!"
Kid at window: "Let it be light work!
Hungry woodchucks are weak woodchucks!"
In the final version, the story begins with a scene from the middle of the story, and then with the Woodchucks selling cookies on the street right away. Instead of for a new roof, the Woodchucks sell cookies to pay "their bill at the medal factory". The Litllest Chickadees are not mentioned at all.
There's also a rough story note, scribbled by Barks at night on a bedside table:
S. has to stay in tub while J.W's carry him to hut of a fakir who is invisible.
Fakir sells S. some powder to sprinkle over himself. S. can become invisible for two minutes more or less.
All return to Duckburg where S. invisibly passes the photogr[aphers].
J.W.s get their tub of money - yak hides.
The gag about invisibility powder later became the sequence with Sing Song Long's volatile fortune cookies. Both the shooting script's early opening scene and the invisibility note are printed in the "The Carl Barks Library"
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