- Two stranded actors being down and out, ask a carnival manager for work. He tells them he has no work, but he has a good scheme to make money. He says he has a large wild man's cage which is empty, but if one of them will blacken up and play the wild man and the other act as lecturer and barker, he will share the profits equally between the three. They accept and an argument arises as to who will be the wild man. Finally the short fellow says he will be wild man. They start in business and a large crowd comes to see the savage. The barker then says he has a scheme to double business; he will frame up an escape and cause the farmers for miles around to join in the chase. That night the wild man is let loose and given an hour's start. Then the barker rings the fire bell and tells the farmers that the wild man has escaped. He is liable to kill all of the women and children he meets. They form a posse and start out to hunt him. They see him two or three times in the moonlight, but he always eludes them. Finally, at an arranged place, he is captured by the barker and several of the show boys, who chain him down to the bottom of a wagon and stand guard over him. They bring him back, put extra chains on him and a large guard around the cage. Next day the farmers for miles around bring their families to see the savage they helped to catch last night. On the last night of the carnival the manager, wild man and the barker are busy counting their money and laughing when an old maid from the village peeps in through the curtain and sees them and hears them talking. She rushes away and pulls the fire bell, arouses the village and tells them what she just saw and how they had all been humbugged. They are all excited when the constable suggested to turn the hose on them. They run a line of hose over the tent, pull open the flap and play the hose on them, washing all the color from the wild man. Then they tear down the tents and chase the showmen out of the town.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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