When the Well Went Dry (1913)
Farmer Billings is placed in a serious predicament when his old well goes dry, and finds it necessary to start digging a new one. He hires Zeth, a neighboring farmer lad, to aid him. Zeth is an admirer of Billings' daughter, Dolly, to which farmer Billings greatly approves. Dolly, however, loves Tom, a city chap, and meets him secretly. Zeth detects them together and informs Billings, who, in anger, orders Tom from his place. Tom accepts his dismissal nonchalantly, but with the determination to again return. The new well progresses and finally a good supply of water is struck. This places Billings in good humor, but the next morning he returns to work to find that it has caved in during the night. Just at this time Tom again returns and Dolly thinking her father is in good humor advises Tom that the opportunity is good to broach their desires to him. They find Billings in a rage, but Tom finally calms him and proposes a scheme whereby Billings can have the well redug quickly and without expense to himself. Billings agrees. His hat and coat are placed on the brink of the caved-in well, and they all hide in the hayloft to await results. Zeth, coming to work, finds the hat and coat, and, imagining that Billings is buried alive, wildly rushes to inform the neighbors, who come post haste with picks and shovels to dig for the supposedly buried Billings. They attack the caved-in well with great energy, quickly reaching the bottom. Billings then shows himself. The neighbors, indignant, then wreak their vengeance on Zeth. Tom broaches his desires to Billings and finds that the old farmer approves most heartily.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Freddie Fralick | |
| Dolly Larkin |
