The Tramp's Unexpected Skate
Shows a tramp asleep. Two mischievous boys appear on roller skates. One removes his skates and they strap them to the feet of "Weary Willie." They then wake him. "Willie" starts out in pursuit of the youthful tormentors, but the s...
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"Two young boys skate up to a bum sleeping one off. They put a pair of skates on him, then wake him and laugh uproariously at his flailing. It's actually a fairly skilled stage performance, whoever is playing the tramp clown. All of the standard ways of tormenting people humorously were invented and perfected by stage performers; 'Sliding Billy' Watson had invented the 'slip on a banana peel' routine in the 1890s, and generations of comics had ornamented it endlessly. The person who flails on skates is likewise a gag of ancient provenance. It is cruel, and if I were t..."
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Shows a tramp asleep. Two mischievous boys appear on roller skates. One removes his skates and they strap them to the feet of "Weary Willie." They then wake him. "Willie" starts out in pursuit of the youthful tormentors, but the s...