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- Pauline, a young maiden, must protect herself from the treacherous "guardian" of her inheritance, who repeatedly plots to murder her and take the money for himself.
- A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
- Jim wishes to make an impression upon Jane, his sweetheart. He calls upon her in a taxi, which he forgets to dismiss when he enters the house. Judge Holden, Jane's father, dislikes Jim and leaves the house when the boy calls. Later, when Jim leaves he faces a taxi bill he cannot pay. He is arrested and taken before Judge Holden. Jane calls to see her father and arrives while Jim is being tried. Jim is fined. Jane saves him from jail by slipping him the money with which to pay his fine. The chauffeur and the judge dive for the money. Holden gets it and pockets it, after which he discharges Jim. Jim is elected town marshal. He elopes with Jane. Judge Holden pursues the pair. Jim allows him to catch up and then arrests him for speeding. He places handcuffs on the Judge and has him arraigned in his own court. A substitute judge fines Holden. The humor of the situation appeals to Judge Holden. As Jim and .lane are leaving the court, he calls them back. Surprised, the two return. Turning to the substitute judge, Holden laughingly orders him to perform the marriage ceremony.
- The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.
- Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.
- Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.
- After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.
- A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.
- A brother and his two younger sisters inherit a modest amount from their father. When the brother is away, their shady housekeeper decides to take it for herself.
- A man disguises himself as a lady in order to be near his newfound sweetheart, after her father has forbidden her to see him.
- Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set, he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters a dice game. When he does finally act, he ruins the scene, wrecks the set, and tears the skirt from the star.
- 19117mNot Rated7.1 (1.9K)ShortCartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.
- Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to a fruit stand and samples the fruit. When he goes to pay for it he finds his $5.00 is missing. This results in a battle with the fruit dealer, but Chaplin finally escapes. He is held up by a footpad and finds it is his former cellmate. He is inveigled into joining him in robbing a house. They put a police officer out of commission with a mallet and stack up the silverware. They then start upstairs to search the upper rooms, but are met by a young woman who implores them to leave because her mother is ill and fears the shock will kill her. Chaplin's heart is touched but the footpad insists on ransacking the house. This results in a battle between the footpad and Chaplin. While they are fighting, a squad of police arrives. The footpad makes his escape, but the police capture Chaplin. The woman of the house, however, saves him by telling the police he is her husband. She gives him a dollar and he leaves. He goes to a lodging house and in order to save his dollar from thieves puts it in his mouth, swallowing it while he sleeps. A crook robs all the men in the lodging house but Chaplin takes the money away from him, and also the rings his "pal" had stolen. This starts a battle in which all join. Chaplin flees. In order to do a good turn to the woman who had saved him from the police, he takes her rings back.
- An account of the life of Jesus Christ according to the New Testament, told as a series of tableaus interspersed with Bible verses.
- Workers in a pottery factory labor in unhealthy, unventilated and dangerous conditions, but the plant's wealthy owner doesn't see any need to change things. It's not long before one of his workers falls ill to tuberculosis, and soon the owner learns the meaning of the old adage, "What goes around comes around".
- Charlie does everything but an efficient job as janitor. Edna buys her fiance, the cashier, a birthday present. Charlie thinks "To Charles with Love" is for him. He presents her a rose which she throws in the garbage. Depressed, Charlie dreams of a bank robbery and his heroic role in saving the manager and Edna ... but it is only a dream.
- Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George, a slave, takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from the girl's rich cousin.
- An amorous couple. A crook. A policeman. A nursemaid and a stolen handbag. These are some of the things the Little Tramp encounters during a walk in the park.
- Failing in his attempt to obtain possession of the document which establishes Marguerite's right to her fortune, Rudolph, her chauffeur, abducts the girl and imprisons her in a shack on the outskirts of the city. Martha, an old hag, guards the heiress. A startling resemblance exists between Carrie, Rudolph's sweetheart and Marguerite. As the result of this resemblance, the chauffeur launches a desperate plan whereby Carrie impersonates Marguerite and takes her place in the heiress' household. Bob Winters discovers the deception. About to unmask the impostor, Bob is attacked and overpowered by Rudolph. Covering the young man with a revolver which he carries in his coat pocket, the chauffeur compels Bob to get into an auto outside. The machine is then headed towards the shack. In the meantime, Marguerite has taken the old hag by surprise. Barely has the heiress locked Martha in the adjoining room that she hears Rudolph and Bob approaching. Snatching the lamp from the table. Marguerite hides behind the door. The moment the chauffeur enters, his victim crashes the lamp down upon his head and knocks him unconscious. The police are summoned and the conspirators led away Justice.
- A young woman discovers a seed that can make women act like men and men act like women. She decides to take one, then slips one to her maid and another to her fiancé. The fun begins.
- Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the gypsies and, along with her mother Zenda, known as "The Woman in Black," she vows revenge. Meanwhile, Crane blackmails Stella Everett's father into forcing her to marry him, even though she loves Frank Mansfield, Crane's rival for a congressional seat. Frank wins, but Stella still faces the prospect of marriage to Crane until Zenda comes to her with a plan. On their wedding day, after the vows are recited, when Crane lifts the veil from his wife's face, he is shocked to discover, that his new bride is Mary. Now Stella and Frank are free to marry, and Zenda has gained her revenge.
- It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.
- Two staid judges, Hay and Holt, are close friends. They have but one child each, an attractive daughter. These old fellows are very dignified and old-fashioned in their ideas, and they guard their girls with jealous care. Two young men of the town are enamored of those pretty girls and pay court to them. They are both surprised in their love-making, by the judges, who angrily order them from their houses, thereby humiliating the young men in the eyes of their sweethearts. The boys swear to get even. They determine to humiliate the judges. So they enlist the services of two gentlemen of shady reputation. The old codgers are enticed from their houses, carried off to a lonely shack in the woods, their beards are shaven off and they are dressed in the garb of children. Frightened half to death by their experience, the old fellows are turned loose to make their way back home as best they can. Their experiences are most amusing. The matter gets into the papers next day, but the names are withheld pending further investigation. Now the boys have them on their hips and threaten to reveal their names unless they give their consent to their daughters' marriage. Of course, the boys win, much to the gratification of the girls and the chagrin of the two crusty old jurists.
- It is the evening of a reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Stamford in honor of their daughter's birthday. The house is beautifully decorated and one of the features is the antique room. In this room stands a figure in a suit of armor of value. During a skylarking between the butler and maid this figure is knocked over and broken. In terror the butler, fearful of the consequences, rushes out to get someone to stand in the suit instead. Happy Jack, the rover, passing by at the time, takes the job on the promise of a good feed. There have been a couple of sneak thieves operating in society circles, and they, learning of the affair, plan to attend. In evening suits, they present themselves and while the butler is engaged with one of them, the other pilfers two invitation cards, which gain them admittance. The daughter is presented by her father with a beautiful diamond and pearl necklace. During the evening the crooks nip it, and going to the antique room to examine their spoil, espy an open safe. This is easy, and they at once begin to help themselves. This is done under the eye of Jack, whom they think a stand of armor. When their work at the safe is about complete. Jack discloses himself, holds them up and hands them into custody. You may imagine his reward now amounts to something more than a feed.
- The fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action-packed battle in a Western town.
- Sylvia Smalley is the secretary of Charles Edmay, a distinguished blind playwright. Leroux, a producer, is eager to buy the play that Edmay has just completed, but the playwright is reluctant to sell. Leroux sends Alice Morgan to steal the script while he abducts Edmay and Sylvia. While Edmay is detained in the wine cellar, Leroux exercises his hypnotic powers over Sylvia, extracting a dictation of the entire play from her. Discovering that in a hypnotic state Sylvia has great dramatic powers, Leroux successfully casts her in the play's lead. Her effort is too great, however, and she succumbs to exhaustion. Leroux awakens her from her trance, and, realizing what has happened, Sylvia reproaches him so harshly that he consents to release Edmay from the cellar. Leroux then plans a dramatic end to his life by entombing himself alive. At that moment, Sylvia awakens and realizes that the whole incident had been a dream triggered by nervous exhaustion.
- The story of Ononko's Vow is a pretty love tale through which is intertwined the story of an Indian's fidelity to his promise. The prologue takes place during the course of the Bloody Brook Massacre when an Indian chief, one of the rescuing party, saves a young Puritan, Jonathan Smith, from the tomahawk of a hostile Indian. Ungagook is the name of this chief, and he is accompanied by his little ten-year-old son, Ononko. Ungagook unknown to Smith receives his death wound in rescuing the latter. Together the chief and his son come to the house of Smith and as they see him safely to his door the colonist's young wife expresses her thanks to Ungagook. The chief makes a gesture which is intended to convey the Idea that he thinks lightly of what he has done, and immediately thereafter betrays the fact that he is mortally hurt. He expires in the home of Smith, but before doing so has his little son Ononko promise fidelity to the family in whose house his spirit goes to the Great Manitou. Twenty-eight years later we see how Ononko, now a vigorous young brave, keeps the pledge which he made his father in the years gone by. Deerfield has been sacked. Jonathan Smith and his daughter Ruth, who has just been affianced to Ebenezer Dow, are driven before the tomahawks and flintlocks of the Indians. Dow has gone for assistance, managing to evade the raiders, and the rescuing party comes from the settlement below. Jonathan Smith is saved by a trapper, but his daughter Ruth is among the colonists who are being taken on across the meadow toward Pine Hill and thence to Canada. Ononko has seen the light in the sky from the village below and has hastened with the relieving party of colonists and Narragansett Indians to the scene. He enters the room where the colonists had stoutly defended themselves but where most of them were massacred. Failing to find his friend he seeks him without, and meets him as he is leaving the awful scene of carnage. Learning from the father that his daughter is among the retreating Indians, Ononko promises to seek for her and bring her back to the grieving old man. The story ends in his successfully carrying out his promise. After the rescue, which is accomplished in a most thrilling manner, we see the young colonist and his bride-to-be approaching the edge of the settlement under the guidance of the tall young chief of the Narragansetts. Behind them walks their friend, the trapper. Ononko stands at the edge of the forest and points toward the settlement below. The three others pass him and turn to bid him good-bye, first asking him to proceed with them into the village. Ononko refuses. Why? Perhaps because in the breast of the handsome savage some gentle thought of the girl he has saved has entered: but his nobility of character permits him to entertain the thought only for a fleeting moment. When Ruth was in captivity she was protected from the snow only by the woolen dress she wore. On the homeward march Ononko had given her his blanket to keep her warm. As he bids Ebenezer and his pretty fiancée farewell Ruth offers Ononko his blanket, which she is wearing. The young chief prettily presents it to Ebenezer and places it across the shoulders of the girl. After accepting the gift the young people go to their home, their trapper friend accompanying them. Ononko stands contemplating the settlement below him. What his thoughts may be the observer is left to imagine. At the finish of the film we again see Mr. Sheldon bidding good-bye to the two young people who have been visiting his town.
- Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
- Mack and Jack are in love with Bessie, the ranchman's daughter, but she loves Jack the best and writes a letter, telling him so. Mack gets it, changes the name and Jack goes away broken-hearted. Bessie, too, is so overcome with grief, that Mack relents and swears to bring his brother back. To do this, the two brothers go through a series of exciting adventures.
- Based on the story by Charles Dickens: Ebenezer Scrooge is well known for his harsh, miserly ways, until he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, and then by three other spirits.
- A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.
- 1911 adaption of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" in which three men around the Notre Dame Cathedral are romantically interested in Esmeralda, a Romani girl: Commander Phöebus, Quasimodo the bell ringer and archdeacon Claude Frollo.
- Maida and Grace of the Busy Bee Department Store, are chums, but rivals for the hand of Mr. Ramsey, head clerk at the store. They both consider him extremely eligible and a good catch, for he is about to be taken into partnership. Old Bachman, the proprietor, always gives a Thanksgiving dinner to his employees, and for this particular occasion, Maida has managed to buy the material for a purple dress. She tells Schlegel the tailor that she will pay a balance owing of four dollars the night before Thanksgiving. Her friend Grace had spent her room rent on a new dress to attend the Thanksgiving dinner, and so Grace will not be thrown out of her room, generous Maida advances to her the small sum she had put aside as the final payment on her purple dress. After the dinner she leaves and goes to the tailor, and to her surprise he gives her the dress. She discards her old one and starts forth with the new purple beauty. On the way she meets Mr. Ramsey, and she makes such an impression on him that he decides that now is the time to get married.
- A very pretty girl is always surrounded by many male admirers, much to the dismay of one very shy fellow, who gets his chance to impress her when two burglars break in.
- The common, but perplexing problem is, what should be the plan for a woman, who, marrying a widower, finds that her husband's love for his first wife is eclipsing his love for her? This is the uncomfortable situation in which Betty finds herself a short time after her marriage to Tom, a jeweler, whose particular jewel is his daughter, Gladys. The young wife grows very fond of the child, and yet, at first, she meets antagonism in this direction, and this begins the primary trial with the husband, who sides with his little daughter. It was this incident that revealed to her that Tom idolized the memory of his first wife still as a living power. Fate seemed to be piling up humiliations for Betty, yet she turned the tide by winning the love of the child and through this means the greater love of her husband. A valuable package has been entrusted to Betty by her husband, but in the absorbing preparations for Gladys' appearance in a masquerade as a fairy, this package becomes mixed with discarded finery. When its loss is discovered, Tom bitterly reproaches Betty for her carelessness, but Gladys, arriving from the party and finding Betty in tears, rallies instantly to her support. Through Gladys, however, the chain of events that carry the package to the furnace room to be burned, is traced, and Betty, at the cost of severe burns to herself, rescues the packet. When Tom learns the true circumstances, he is deeply repentant, and at the end finds that Betty is truly worthy of all of his love and respect.
- The story deals with the love of a young doctor and the daughter of an old Professor of Mineralogy. A certain unclaimed mine has been left to the young man by his uncle. A false friend succeeds in securing the plans and location of the mine, and persuades the old Professor to enter his scheme to cheat the rightful owner out of his claim. The facts are kept safely from the daughter, who is in love with the real owner of the mine, until some months after she has been forced to marry the false friend. The truth is then revealed to her, when her former sweetheart meets her father and the "friend" in their new western abode, and accuses them of deliberately stealing his claim. But Justice takes care of its own when an explosion occurs in the mine and the father is killed and the husband is badly injured. Medical aid is required at once. The girl in a wild ride reaches the nearest village twenty miles away, and seeing the sign of a doctor on the door, she nervously knocks. It is opened; she finds herself face to face with the man whom she loves and whom her husband has so cruelly wronged. She has come to ask him to save the life of his worst enemy. Here the nobility of the man is revealed. She has asked for medical aid; he is the doctor, if the man dies he may again regain the woman of his heart, but duty before everything, and he goes with her, and again, face to face, the two men meet. With the calm, quiet precision of his profession he forces his enemy to do his bidding. He saves his life and then turns to the wife. Silently the two, this man and this woman, look into each other's eyes long and earnestly, and part. She sinks into her chair with a sob, a moan, realizing what she has missed in life. For days she watches beside the bed of the man who has deprived her of happiness. Weary with watching, one night she falls asleep. He is delirious. He rises from his couch and wanders back up to the deserted mine. A moment he pauses on the edge of the dizzy height, a cry from the woman startles him, a shriek, and he is dashed to pieces one thousand five hundred feet below. A pale, quiet little woman dressed in black stops at the doctor's door one day and leaves a note asking for forgiveness and a mining claim upon the doctor's table, then sadly turns to leave; but a strong hand touches her shoulder, and she looks into the eyes of the man she loves, and as she stretches her arms to a great cluster of flowers on the table and holds them to her breast, we realize that something new and sweet and true has come into both their lives.
- Silas Kendall, a prospector, and his daughter Nell, so the story goes, are prospecting in the mountains, a few miles above Canyon City, a little western town, and the basis of supplies for the hundreds of more or less successful gold prospectors. Kendall has built him a cabin and he and his daughter, a robust little woman, have managed to eke out a living, always hopeful some day of making the "big strike." Kendall is old and not thoroughly responsible at times. In fact, his simplicity and childish trust in all strangers has earned him the uncomplimentary title of half-wit. Twice before our story opens he has lost two valuable claims because of his too freely proclaiming his finds with the consequence that his claims have been staked by other prospectors. The story opens showing Kendall and his daughter leaving the cabin for the hills. The girl works with him until close to the noon hour when she lays aside her pick and shovel to return to the cabin and prepare dinner. While she is thus engaged, there is a knock at the door and a young miner, Hal Martin, steps in. Martin has accidentally wounded himself in the arm while cleaning his gun and applies to the girl for help. She assists him to bind the wound and thanking her he leaves, after bashfully asking to be permitted to call again. Kendall, at work in the hills, is about to give up in despair, when he turns up two small nuggets and other fine pay dirt. With a glad cry he springs to his feet and hurries back to the cabin. Showing the specimens to Nell, he tells her he is going down to Canyon City and have them assayed. Nell, however, pleads with him not to do so, having in mind the other two valuable claims which he had unwittingly lost. He finally gives in and during the old man's absence from the room Nell hides the specimens in a coffee pot. Kendall returns and while Nell is busy outside, finds the specimens and skips out of the room. At the town store the old miner shows the specimens to a number of miners and despite the entreaties of the old store-keeper they entice Kendall to tell them the location of the mine. Nell returns to the cabin shortly after her father has left, finds the coffee pot on the floor and the specimens gone. She is about to give up in despair when there is a knock at the door and Hal Martin enters. The frantic girl explains her troubles and pleads with Martin to help her save the claim. At the store the old man has boastfully told of the rich vein and minutely described it to the other miners, who, when satisfied they will have no trouble in finding the location, run out of the store, mount and ride away. Back at the cabin Martin has listened to the story and tells the girl they must race back to the claim and beat the others to it. The girl quickly saddles a horse. Martin mounts his own and the race to stake the claim begins. The scenes alternate between the miners and the girl and Martin. However. Martin and the girl arrive just in time, and while Martin holds the others off with his gun, the girl stakes the claim. The others, realizing they are beaten, turn away, leaving Nell and Hal alone.
- Mr. Peck has long had a weakness for going out with the boys. Though a married man, he has not been able to fully control the craving for a little game of pinochle. His wife grows tired of these regular sessions and puts her font down hard. "No more." Peck, however, must get out so he resorts to that effective subterfuge, "a sick friend." It goes, and he is allowed until ten to return. At ten o'clock the game is just getting warm and a breakaway is impossible. Mrs. Peck has begun to doubt the truth of the "sick friend" story, and starts out after the renegade Peck, making tracks towards the nearest café. Entering, she loudly insists that the manager present her husband. Peck, who is in the back room, hears her voice, and diving out the back way, beats it for home, while the Madam is searching for him. Getting into bed, after putting the clock on a couple of hours, he is apparently asleep when she returns. Aroused by her entrance, he with mock dignity, demands, "Woman, where have you been until this unseemly hour?" Well, he really makes her feel the incriminating evidence of her own apparently compromising position, and not being able to give convincing proof of her own innocence, she becomes abjectly contrite, promising never to deny Peck his little pastimes.
- Intent on scuttling his ship, a financially-pressed shipowner conspires with the vessel's captain to collect the insurance money, unbeknownst to him that his daughter and her beau, Charlie, are aboard. Will they get away with it so easily?
- An unrepentant crook enters a dance hall and gets in a fight over a girl. As he, unknowingly, breaks into her house, another bloody mess stains the residence's thick carpets. Can a simple act of kindness pave the way for his regeneration?
- A documentary about Montessori schools.
- A number of boys are enjoying themselves at the old swimming hole in the bend of the creek, disporting themselves on the bank and in the water minus bathing suits: clad only in nature's garb. Tad and Mark, two urchins, are not members of the swimming hole gang. Mark, by showing he can do stunts, becomes a regular member, but forgets poor Tad, and helps the gang drive him away. Later, Tad, while stealing a swim all by himself, rescues the daughter of the owner of the surrounding land, and as a reward is given title to the swimming pool. In the meantime the boys are arrested by the former owner, and in court it looks as if it will go hard with them, when Tad rushes in, proves to the judge that he is the owner, and returns good for evil by declaring that he gave the gang permission to swim. Earnest Butterworth appears as Tad, Guy Hayman as Mark, and Ruth Hampton as the girl Tad rescues.
- Three cavemen court Miss Araminta Rockface. She favors the one who apparently slew the Missing Link ... but a dinosaur did the deed.
- Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.
- A young boy, opressed by his mother, goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade.
- Ramona is a little orphan of the great Spanish household of Moreno. Alessandro, the Indian, arrives at the Camulos ranch with his sheep-shearers, showing his first meeting with Ramona. There is at once a feeling of interest noticeable between them which ripens into love. This Senora Moreno, her foster mother, endeavors to crush, with poor success, until she forces a separation by exiling Alessandro from the ranch. He goes back to his native village to find the white men devastating the place and scattering his people. The Senora, meanwhile, has told Ramona that she herself has Indian blood, which induces her to renounce her present world and go to Alessandro. They are married and he finds still a little shelter left from the wreckage. Here they live until the whites again appear and drive them off, claiming the land. From place to place they journey, only to be driven further until finally death comes to Alessandro just as aid comes in the person of Felipe, the Senora's son, who takes Ramona back to Camulos.
- Lost film about the Gettysburg Address. Nothing is known about the survival status of this short film. It features the fourth live-action depiction of Abraham Lincoln on film.
- Our old friend Josie becomes interested in a new book, "The Castaways," depicting the adventures of beautiful Ethlinda and her lover, cast ashore on a desert island. Hank invites her to Coney Island. On their way, Hank gets into a strenuous argument with the conductor, and the two are put off. They finally arrive at the huge amusement place, and there everything seems to remind Josie of her book. While dining in a restaurant, the colored waiter spills soup on them and another row follows. After a day's excitement spent in the Zulu village, and getting mixed up with some of the other amusements, Josie and Hank sit out on the rocks of the seashore to have their lunch, and they fall asleep. The combination of the day's experiences and too much cheese for lunch gives Josie a terrible nightmare, in which she sees Hank and herself cast on a desert island from a big yacht commanded by the villainous car conductor. They are captured by a band of ferocious man-eating savages and sentenced to death by the Cannibal King, who seems to be the colored waiter with whom Hank had the rumpus. After some terrifying adventures and hair-raising escapes, they manage to get to the island in a small boat. Josie suddenly awakens, rouses Hank, and to their dismay the pair find they are practically marooned, as the tide has risen while they were asleep and the rocks on which they are lying have been converted into islands. After an awful struggle, they get across to the mainland. Josie, in disgust, casts "The Castaways" into the water, and as the book sinks, tells Hank her adventures in Slumberland have cured her of a desire for "Thrillers."