The Little Poet (1912)
Grace and Peter are in love, but Grace's parents refuse their consent to marriage and absolutely refuse to meet Peter. Peter wails out his sorrows in tearful verses, but Grace, who is more prosaic, suggests that they elope. This plan is carried out in the old romantic way, that is, via the ladder from Grace's room, and the waiting automobile whisks them away. The old people are properly enraged at the elopement and vow that they will never receive their daughter back into their home again. A few years go by and with their passing comes hard times. The market for poetry is not what it was in honeymoon days and Peter returns from having made the rounds of the various editors with a bundle of unsold manuscripts under his arm. They are down to their last few dollars and Peter is in despair. Grace, however, who is the brains of the establishment, soon devises a scheme. They must write Popper and Mommer immediately, tell them of their sore straits and asks to be taken back. The letter is duly written and dispatched. It is several days before they receive the answer, which fills them both with despair. It explains that while the daughter is welcome to return home and to bring any children she may have they will not shelter the husband. The problem is soon worked out by the ingenious Grace, who, keeping Peter in ignorance of her plan, assures him, however, that he will be given a home under the parental roof. It is with welcome arms that the old people open the door of their home to her son, Peter. Peter is rather a large boy for seven years old, but nevertheless he wins the old people's heart. He is presented with a drum, numerous other toys, and is told to have a good time, until he becomes so noisy that he is sent out of the room. Peter, for it is Grace's husband, now seeks solace in a pipe, when "Grandpa" enters, finds the boy indulging in this evil pastime, and then calling his mother, orders her to take him upstairs. The old man follows a moment later with a slipper and is about to administer the much-needed chastisement when Grace is forced to tell the truth. In the end Peter and Grace are forgiven, Peter swears off poetry, obtains a position with his father-in-law, and "they live happily ever after."
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