The Parson's Button Matcher (1915)
The parson's congregation is made up of a mighty mean bunch. They blow in all their money on autos, and when the collection box comes around on Sundays, they heap it full of buttons. That's enough to make any decent tramp mad, especially when he is the parson's protégé. Besides, the parson's horse needs a new harness, and the parson needs a barrel of other things, but the congregation won't even pay him his salary. "Revenge," cries Algy, and off he goes to get even. The harness-maker is napping, and Algy spots a familiar button on his vest. Any good dectectuff knows that there is nothing like real evidence, and so Algy snips off a corner of the harness-maker's vest, and of course this is only incidental, takes a new set of harness. Sunday comes, and the congregation gathers at the church. The shooting you hear comes from the congregation's autos. By heck; vintage of '76. At church, Algy gets lots of clues. He sees all kinds of familiar buttons and so he gets busy. On his way home from church, he shows the congregation a thing or two. Algy's middle name is Speed, and so he drives the parson's horse in first, while he leaves the congregation behind, their cannons bursting, sputtering, spitting fire and falling apart by the wayside. Another hard day's work and Algy heads for home, but not empty-handed, for, with him he brings cows, chickens and most everything you can think of. When the rightful owners come to claim their goods, Algy just starts in to match buttons on their clothes with those he found in the collection box. Away they sneak, their heads bowed in shame, and no one has the nerve to claim a thing as his. Algy has shown them all. "Parson," says he, "if you ever need a button again why, you'll have to buy it."
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Will Louis | Director |
| Will Louis | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Raymond McKee | |
| Julian Reed | |
| Robert Walker | |
| Charles McGee |
