The Little Sheriff (1912)
Dan Felton, a ranchman, has a wife and little four-year-old boy, Bobbie, who is the pride of the community, especially of Jim Watson, the Sheriff. Watson calls one day and takes Bobbie back to his office on the broncho. A few moments later Felton is taken ill, is put to bed by Mrs. Felton, and dies from the effect of a sun-stroke and weak heart. Bill Lewis, a cowboy on the ranch, is sent to summon the Sheriff. Little Bobbie is playing "sheriff," when Watson takes him in his arms and tells him his daddy is dead. A few months pass and Lewis proves himself a scoundrel by trying to force Mrs. Felton into marrying him. She strikes him in the face and takes refuge in the ranch house. Lewis forces an entrance that night, but is met at gun's point by the brave woman, who forces him into a store-room and locks the door. Meanwhile, Bobbie runs off down the trail in search of some of the boys and is picked up by a bunch returning from a dance. He gasps out his mother's peril, the Sheriff is informed, and heads a posse back at once. Battering his way out of the store-room, Lewis is searching for Mrs. Felton when the boys arrive and drag him off to receive his just deserts. On the moonlit porch Sheriff Watson rides little Bobbie on his knee, while the widow looks on happily. "You've got to be my little sheriff always, Bobbie," declares Watson, then is thrown into consternation when the little fellow stoutly maintains that his mamma is a good sheriff also. "Don't you want her, too?" he asks. For a moment Watson and the widow hesitate, then the sheriff takes the happy widow in his arms and kisses her tenderly while Bobbie claps his hands joyfully.
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