Wood B. Wedd Goes Snipe Hunting (1914)
After his many failures in the matrimonial field in which his friend, Darby Jenks, had managed things for him. Wood B. decides to do a little scheming on his own account, so he started off to the country to find a wife, after writing Jenks, telling him of his intentions, but the note failed to reach Jenks. On arriving at the hotel in Spudville, Wood B. was surprised when he found Darby as the clerk. The enthusiasm of their meeting was soon dampened when their mutual admiration for Susie, the landlord's daughter, became apparent. Taking his farmer friends into his confidence, Jenks arranged for them to start the subject of snipe hunting, and just as Wood B. became interested, Jenks dropped the information that Susie was very fond of snipe. The bait was taken with a rush, and in a few moments they arranged to take Wood B. out and show him where he could get plenty of snipe. Susie, however, happened to overhear the plan, and, taking pity on the city fellow's ignorance of the time-worn rural joke, she told him all about it, but urged him to fall in with the plan, as she would follow them in a buggy and bring him back to the hotel before the others could return on foot. Her plan worked splendidly, and the farmers were greatly surprised the following morning, to see Wood B. emerge from the hotel, looking as fresh as a daisy, whereas they had spent the entire night on the porch watching for him to return from his snipe hunting expedition. Wood B. was overjoyed, for not only had he outwitted the farmers, but on the ride back from the swamp he had proposed to Susie and she had accepted him. They started off for the moving picture show, and Wood B. was buying the tickets when, to Susie's horror, what should she discover, but a poster advertising one of Wood B.'s former adventures entitled "Love by the Pound," in which the camera had caught him in the very act of embracing a buxom matron. Outraged, Susie returned his ring to him and once more poor Wood B. had to admit defeat right upon the very threshold of matrimonial felicity.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| C.J. Williams | Director |
| Mark Swan | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| William Wadsworth | |
| Arthur Housman | |
| Frank A. Lyons |
