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In this screaming comic is shown the amount of mischief that can be accomplished by one small boy. A lady and gentlemen are packing their trunk; they leave the room for a moment and during their absence the mischief-maker enters w...

What One Small Boy Can Do

In this screaming comic is shown the amount of mischief that can be accomplished by one small boy. A lady and gentlemen are packing their trunk; they leave the room for a moment and during their absence the mischief-maker enters with a hammer and nails and fastens the bottom of the trunk securely to the floor, then awaits developments in the hallway. The couple returns in a few moments and finishes packing the trunk, locks if and sends for the expressman. He arrives quickly, endeavors to lift the trunk, but fails, and calls for help, and the combined strength of he and his assistant fails to budge it from the floor. Father enters, laughs derisively at their efforts and takes hold himself. It resists his strength and he finally gives a terrific yank and the top of the trunk separates from the bottom, and all hands, are precipitated into a heap on the floor. The boy has watched all this from the hallway and is convulsed with laughter. He now goes into the parlor, fills the horn of the phonograph with flour, attaches a bellows to the other end and hides under the table. Visitors soon arrive and his parents exhibit the new instrument. A record is put on, the music starts, and while the visitors are crowding around the horn, the boy gets busy at the other end. All hands are covered with flour. While search is being made for him, the boy rushes into the hallway, secures a rope and ties the ends to the doorknobs of the opposite rooms, then pounds the door of each room. The occupants endeavor to open their doors and become angered when unable to do so, and, having worked up sufficient excitement, the joker cuts the rope in the middle and the people of both rooms fall all over one another. Father and mother are seated at a table in the evening: the wife finishes writing a letter, puts on her bonnet and goes but to mail it. The old gent thinks this a great chance to sneak a drink, so leaves the house quietly. The boy finds two half-length charcoal sketches, cuts them out at the outline and fastens them to a small stick. He then pulls down the shade and gives a very novel shadowgraph exhibition on the curtain. His mother returns home first, sees the shadows on the curtain, starts at the sight and rushes angrily into the room. She finds the boy busily engaged and laughs at his good joke. From the opposite direction father comes home, sees the same shadows, jumps over the fence in a rage, vaults the porch, prepared to do serious damage. He rushes in, ready to almost murder his wife, to discover the joke on himself, grabs the perpetrator in his arms and all join in a hearty laugh.

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What One Small Boy Can Do

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