When He Died (1911)
Phil Flooey, a clerk in a broker's office, is suddenly taken ill at his office and begs permission of his employer to go home for the rest of the day. The boss permits him to do so, and he leaves the office with the boys, tendering him their sympathy and hope he will feel all right the next day. When Flooey arrives home he finds that his wife has a lady caller, Mrs. Jabber. The Jabber her child is with her and she and his own little girl are playing with their dolls. They are noisy, however, and when Flooey says that he wants to sleep, the little ones are told to go out doors on the steps and play. Here the children play with their dolls and one of them, who has a black veil for her doll's dress, hangs the veil on the door knob, which makes it appear as a signal of mourning. The next morning, Flooey feeling much better, proposes a picnic, and he and the family leave the back way to catch a car to the country. Shortly after, one of the boys, employed at Flooey's office, passes the house and sees the crepe. He immediately starts the story that Flooey has died. During the day, the office force make preparations to give Flooey a real royal send-off and in the evening, having purchased an exquisite floral piece they go to the Flooeys' home to console the bereaved widow. Upon their request to look upon the mortal remains of their departed co-worker. Mrs. Flooey is thunderstruck, but ushers them into the parlor, where her husband is asleep on the couch. But suddenly the "corpse" becomes animated and sits up in surprise, and the surprised friends, as soon as they have collected their senses beg an explanation. The little girl clears up the mystery when she explains that the crepe is her doll's dress, and the mourners' sorrow is turned to mirth.
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