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Learn more- Phil is a corn-fed country boy, and Mert is pleasingly plump and mischievous. She rakes the meadows and Phil at the same time. Pop Snodgrass, her father, does not like Phil. He chases him up the windmill, and Phil gets caught in the fans, and whirls around at a great rate. Pop thinks he is rid of him for good. However, a change in the wind throws him into Mert's room, and then Pop is mad. Tinhorn Ted is in jail. However, he steals a saw from a passing workman, and escapes. He hides in a mail bag, and is delivered with the rest of the bags at Pop's place. Pop receives a letter introducing a famous artist, who is recommended to him by a friend. "He wants to paint a pig," says the letter, "so I sent him to you." Pop is delighted and says the artist shall be Mert's husband. Ted determines to impersonate the artist. He meets the real one, beans him and takes his outfit, locking the senseless artist in the hen house. Ted is then presented to Mert as the artist, and she plays and sings for him, to his great agony. They are spooning under a tree, when Phil puts a hen coop over Ted's head. Pop rescues him and spanks Mert. Phil and Mert then determine to elope. Phil is taking Mert out of her window down a ladder when Pop catches him and he runs off down the street balancing Mert on top of the ladder. Pop overtakes them and sends Mert to school. Ted meets his accomplice, Melba Sundae, at the school to kidnap Mert, the heiress. The girls are all in overalls, and Melba puts on a wonderful silk pair. Phil arrives, too, following Mert. The snobbish girls are horrid to Mert, but surround Phil. The mistress throws him out, so he disguises as a little girl and returns. Mert says he is her twin. The girls go to bed, and Melba stays up waiting for Ted. The mistress takes Phil to her room to comb his hair, and his wig comes off. He runs. Mert is kidnapped by Melba and Ted, and Phil follows them to the city. Mert is taken to a café below the street level, and Phil slides through a manhole to get in. Ted introduces Mert as the new dancer, and Phil comes to rescue her. There is a fight, and Mert is carried off in an auto. Phil takes a bicycle from a cop and gives chase. At last they are both caught in the safety fenders of a street car.
Moving Picture World, August 11, 1917
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