The Listener's Lesson (1912)
The Simpkin sisters of Green Valley are two old spinsters, who are very much in love with Jonathan and David, two country boobs who own adjoining farms. Everything is splendid until the spinsters advertise for summer boarders and two dashing girls, Isabel and Clarice, come out from the city, Jonathan and David immediately fall in love with the girls, and a great flirtation begins that drives the poor spinsters to desperation. At the barn dance city girls break up the gathering when they set the whole crowd to doing the "Grizzly Bear" and "Texas Tommy" swings, and the Simpkin sisters hike for home in disgust. Next morning Isabel and Clarice are told to leave the house by the enraged spinsters. Securing quarters in the town the girls write to Jonathan and David, explain matters and declare that if they will sell their farms the wedding bells will chime. Immediately Jonathan calls up David, and explains that if they can sell their farms they will have a double wedding. Now the Simpkin sisters are "rubbering" over the phone, and think the boys are speaking of them. So the old girls hasten to town, and, to quicken matters, buy the boys' farms through the dealer. Then they sit down to await the proposals. But, of course, the boys receive their money and, a week later, start for town to meet the girls. They are seen by the old spinsters, who joyfully think the boys are on the way to get their marriage licenses and follow them. But the boys meet Isabel and Clarice in the justice's office, the double wedding is performed, and the happy couples come out just in time to meet the Simpkin sisters face to face. Of course the boys eye them coldly, and proceed joyfully on their way, while the poor old souls sob out their grief at being thus fooled on each other's shoulders.
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