THE GALLOPINC ROMEO
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ELOPERS
JUSTIFIED
Written by AARON E. BISHOP
Produced by WILLIAM DUNCAN
CAST
THE SHERIFF
.. SCAREM Rex de Roeelll
COL. SCAREM covertly installs a burglar alarm in his house, with the dial located in his room. When dashing
Fred Fuller comes to elope with his beauteous daughter Bessie, they unconsciously set oft" the alarm, and the
Colonel barricades himself in his room and excitedly phones the Sheriff that the expected burglars have come.
A quick-acting posse swoops down and carries off Fred before he can explain, and the belated Sheriff captures
Bessje as she comes through the window, thinking she is a female burglar. Fred eventually convinces his captors
of his identity and ventures back at once to get his little bride to be. In the dark he picks up the colored maid and
carries her to the Parson's before he finds his mistake. Then he dashes madly back to the house—and just in time,
for real bandits have followed the trail of the oversure Sheriff, and are holding up Bessie and her father.
On the Same Reel With
THE GROCER'S REVENGE
Written by MARIE P. LONSDALE
Produced by CHAS. H. FRENCH
Hiram Snow, a mean and miserly man, who should be surnamed "Frost," has money, but he hates to part with
it, particularly when it comes to sharing with members of his own family. His wife and two children have a hard
time getting enough to eat, although he is one of the most affluent men in the village. He keeps such close tab on
"the advanced cost of living" that he securely locked up the butter. Upon going to the closet he found that someone had been at it, which angered him so much that he refused to buy any more butter for their meals. He, however, thinks of himself, and on his trip to the grocery he cannot resist eyeing with envy a fine, fat roll of butter. The
price is too high, and he sticks so closely to his money, but he surreptitiously puts
a roll of butter under his hat. The keen-eyed grocery man sees this, but quickly
decides a revenge upon the culprit's head. Snow expects to go home at once, but
the grocery man gets in the village loiterers, the gossips and the chronic shoppers,
and makes a ring around old man Snow and keeps him in proximity with a large
stove. The consequence is that the crusty Snow is very freely oiled before he puts up
the "ante" for the butter, and saves himself prosecution as a kleptomaniac and further trouble for his stinginess.
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