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COMEDY.
duty in front of the store to display the clothing of a gentleman.
A peddler with a pack on his back is now seen outside a restaurant. He is shortly joined by another with a push cart, loaded with chairs. They join conversation, and finally enter the restaurant, leaving the push cart in the gutter. The carriage with the boy on the box arrives on the scene, collides with curb, causing the dummy to fall off the back into the road unobserved by them.
The two peddlers now emerge from the restaurant, and after some difficulty the one with the push cart eventually gets it oh its way and runs over the dummy. Looking back he observes what he fancies is a man whom he has run over. Calling ' his companion, they endeavor to resuscitate the supposed injured man. Failing in this they carry the dummy to an apothecary, who refuses to admit them. Not knowing what to do they decide to take the dummy to the home of one of them, and have great difficulty getting in through the door owing to the muddled condition resulting from excess liquor.
One of the tenants seeing what she supposes to be a dead man, calls for help, and another tenant responding she explains the tragedy. They go for the police. Our peddlers have at last arrived in the bedroom, where they carefully lay the dummy in the bed and try all manner of ways to bring some life into the figure — sponging the face and hands, giving it brandy — all of which avails them nothing. In sheer exhaustion they desist. Covering the figure with the bedclothes they sit down to wait, falling asleep in their chairs. While they sleep one of the other roomers looks in, and seeing the plight they are in, also observing the dummy, is quite amused, and at the same time plays a practical joke on the pe>ddlers by cutting off the dummy's head and placing it in a basin.
While this is transpiring in the bedroom, the woman who observed them is telling the police magistrate a tale of terrible woe and tragedy. The boy charged with the care of the dummy returns to his master and explains the loss of the dummy. The proprietor of the dry goods store hastens to the magistrate and is in time to hear some of the woman's story. A light dawns upon him, and he explains that he thinks the tragedy is not so terrible after all.
Two policemen are told to accompany the owner of the dummy to the house, to which they are led by the woman. They arrive at the bedroom. The owner recognizes his dummy. They awaken the peddlers, who have slept off some of the effects of the liquor, but on seeing the head off the dummy and the presence of the police they quake with fear, but are soon reassured, and the dummy is carried off by its owner, and the peddlers feel and show that "all's well that ends well."
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Approximate Leng-th, 614 feet.
Crowned with single blessedness and old age, the occupant of a room in a tenement house has his rest disturbed by a number of
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