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- Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down the street to a house fire. Inside a man sleeps, he awakes amidst flames and throws himself back on the bed. In comes a firefighter, hosing down the blaze. He carries out the victim, down a ladder to safety. Other firefighters enter the house to save belongings, and out comes one with a baby. The saved man rejoices, but it's not over yet. Another resident appears upstairs. He jumps.
- A poor young girl tries to sell matches in a snowstorm. After being robbed by bullies, she lights matches which illuminate visions of a far happier Christmas than the one she faces.
- A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.
- The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?
- The adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, still reading, trips over a servant who's on her hands and knees cleaning the walk. He walks through jump-roping girls, runs into a mule, walks into the only other person on an empty street, and then walks into the path of a steamroller. Two cyclists approach his flattened body. Out come their air pumps, and soon our genial hero has set off again, nose in his book.
- Boys blow peas at the cobbler, who throws a boot and hits a woman.
- A mischievous errand boy, sent out on a delivery, causes havoc in the streets of Hove. When he arrives back at the shop, he finds all his furious victims are already there complaining to the grocer -- and the chase is on!
- Matchsticks come to life and perform tricks.
- Clown cuts off customer's head and replaces it.
- A sacked man's dog finds hidden jewels and tracks the thieves.
- Boys hand their aunt's suitor a hosepipe instead of his cane.
- Boys' joke on their aunt's suitor causes him to fall.
- Sweep dirties the maid's washing and is scrubbed.
- PC catches a blind beggar reading a story to his deaf colleague.
- Boys play jokes on the family and are punished.
- A boy helps to escape a convict after meeting him at his mother's graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia and when he returns is arrested again but released in the last moment after a dying convict confesses.
- A hungry vagabond snatches a wrapped leg of lamb and jumps into a large wooden barrel to hide. Will he get away scot-free?
- Eccentric dances. National dances. Spanish and Japanese dances.
- Man feigns sleep so a girl will kiss him, and she tricks him with a donkey.
- An aged villager, reminded of his boyhood days in the church choir by the sound of the bells, totters to the church door and begs the vicar to allow him to join in and sing once more. He expires in the chancel, happy.
- Scenes of the coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
- As a man removes his clothes to bathe, more reappear on him.
- A sacked packer causes confusion by mixing parcels.
- Tricked monk tricks brother into drinking bad wine.