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small tufts, testing the countryside for easy pickings. He is hit by a brick tossed by the hulking farm lass in innocent roughhousing with her dog. Contritely she hauls the injured man into the farm house. Her father gives him a drink. While he turns to transact some business, Charlie picks up a bill and fans himself when caught with it. That embarrassment safely past, he ferrets out where the old man hides his money.
As Tillie skips coyly through the garden, Charlie follows. There is a fetching sequence on a high fence where coquetry is combined with maintaining a precarious balance. Charlie's alluring descriptions of life in the city seduce her into stealing the money and running away with him.
In the city Tillie, in a dress of preposterous cut and volume and a hat topped with an unfashionable but conspicuous bird, has hairbreadth escapes through traffic on Charlie's guiding arm. They are spied by Mabel, his partner in love and crime, who proceeds to knock him down. Tender Tillie lifts him up — by the hair — and drags him away when a policeman comes on the scene. Mabel tries her arts, she smiles coquettishly, drops her muff, and, when the cop proves no gallant and fails to pick it up, she makes a face after him.
In a cafe Tillie reacts to strong drink by frantic dancing— with strangers and solo. When she slips, five men are not enough to lift her. At Mabel's nudging, Charlie takes care of Tillie's pocketbook for her and he and Mabel make a getaway. Tillie, after some tomboyish play with the police, which they fail to appreciate, lands in jail. A wealthy uncle secures her release but sternly refuses to see her.
While Charlie and Mabel are spending Tillie's money, they go to a restaurant where Tillie has taken a job as a waitress. Recognizing her deceiver, Tillie drops her tray on him as she faints. Meanwhile her rich uncle, while on