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Pokes sneaks out of the house to play cards with his friends. After a lucky hand, he returns home, where his luck continues, catching a hapless burglar and returning the loot. But his wife isn't buying any of the tall tale he spins.
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"Bobby Burns sneaks out of the house to play in a poker game. He wins everything. When he returns home, he finds a burglar stealing all the china and recovers it by happenstance... but tells his wife a long story of his bravery. First at Vim, later at Jaxom, Burns and Walter Stull were Pokes & Jabs, a comedy team whose surviving movies demonstrate how hungry the movie audience was for Keystone-style slapstick comedy. These are awfully primitive affairs by the standards of the day, but this is one of the better ones. Although there seemed to be a discontinuity about the two-thirds mark, it ..."
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Pokes sneaks out of the house to play cards with his friends. After a lucky hand, he returns home, where his luck continues, catching a hapless burglar and returning the loot. But his wife isn't buying any of the tall tale he spins.