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Mere is a genuine comedy subject which provoked the heartiest laughter of the week. A city man, tired of his pampered home life just about vacation time, makes up his mind to go into the country and enjoy the attractions of rusticity. On his journey to the home of rest his troubles start. The vehicle containing his grip and other impedimenta breaks down and has to be repaired before the journey can be completed. Arrived at his destination, he is effusively welcomed by the natives, but then his trouble commences. The room in which he sleeps is not palatial. He seeks seclusion in the fields. The cows disturb him, malicious girls break down his hammock, scraggy old maids invade his quietude. He goes fishing and is dipped into the water; the cow pokes her nose into the kitchen, etc.. etc. Far from the madding crowd neither repose nor comfort is his, and so, in a prettily tinted scene, he sneaks away from the place with his "duds" and makes his way home to his rooms, where his attentive man servant makes him happy with drinks and things. This little episode was quite humorously carried out by the Edison Company, and, as we have said, it secured the hearty applause of the audience. It was well rehearsed and well acted. The only criticism we have to offer is that the positive might have been freer from those surface markings which unfortunately disfigure so many Edison pictures. We trust that in drawing attention to this defect we may be the means of securing its obviation. - The Moving Picture World, August 28, 1909