&quot;Suddenly an ear-splitting scream rent the darkness. Once more the ghost of Lady Merle walked abroad.&quot; Thus the farmer&apos;s wife reads and a tingling chill races up and down her backbone. &quot;The Ghost of Hampton Manor&quot; is a terrific st...

Allen Curtis

A Narrow Squeak

The plot is not worked up very strongly

There is material here for a good story, but the plot is not worked up very strongly. The makeup of the two tramps is pleasing and the squealing pig in the gate and other rural features should have been a source of greater amusement than they produce. In spite of its slow movement and uncertain plot the film contains many scenes of interest. - The Moving Picture World, April 25, 1914

"Suddenly an ear-splitting scream rent the darkness. Once more the ghost of Lady Merle walked abroad." Thus the farmer's wife reads and a tingling chill races up and down her backbone. "The Ghost of Hampton Manor" is a terrific story, and when she finishes reading it her nerves are all a-quiver. Willy Walrus and Hamburger Hank, two hungry knights of the road, have just picked up a daily paper and they, too, experience horrid tremors in their lumbar regions. The farmer and his wife leave for the theater. When they are nearly there the wife discovers that she has forgotten the tickets. They return. Meantime Walrus and Hank visit the farmer's house, and finding no one at home, enter. The effects of reading the ghost story has not worn off and when they hear an ear-splitting scream (which comes from the sick pig) they become terrified. The pig runs out of the house a moment later to get stuck in a fence. Hank beats it from the house, but his career is abruptly halted when a clothesline catches him under the chin.

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