Earl Hurd was a cartoonist who went to work for J.R. Bray's cartoon studio early on. He directed the Bobby Bumps series for the studio and after Bray got out of cartoons at the end of the silent era, Hurd went on to work for Disney from about 1934 through his death in 1940. However, the cartoon patents that Bray largely retired on were the Bray-Hurd patents. What happened to Hurd's cut?
Maybe it was spent on cartoons like this. Bobby Bumps, a small boy in knickerbockers and a cricket cap, to go to the circus, but his father is busy working on the books. Bobby sneaks off with his dog Fido. The illustrations are a bewildering mix of detailed backgrounds and sketchy ones and the animation is about half-animated by modern standards. Given the lack of competition at the time, this was good enough. It was far too mild by any other standard.