Lo! The Poor Indian (1914)
A. Hunter, wandering through the forest in quest of game, fell into a trap. He was released by a poor Indian. Filled with gratitude, the hunter spoke as follows: "Let Red Hawk come to wigwam of his White Father, there Paleface may give him much Wampum." The poor Indian, who had a casual knowledge of Cooper, partially understood the meaning and followed him to his home. The arrival of the noble aboriginal of the primeval forest at the hunter's home nearly scared the hunter's children into "conniption" fits. The hunter left him in the kitchen and went upstairs to prepare a room for his guest. Left alone, the poor Indian accidentally turned on the water in the kitchen sink. After trying to stop the flow with his thumb, his simple and untrammeled intellect gave up the problem and he sat and watched the sink overflow, with naive enjoyment. The hunter's spouse, called from the cellar by the sudden downpour, caught one glimpse of the red man and fell back into the cellar. The hunter came down, explained things and the startled Redskin was placated with a jar of jam. While licking the knife with which he had removed the jam, the poor Indian came suddenly upon the hunter's daughter and her young man. Conceiving that his hour was upon him, the young man removed his wig, gave it to the savage and fled. The hunter, proud of the ease with which he had tamed the native, decided to deliver a lecture, using the Indian as an object lesson. The "object lesson" got tangled with a quart of firewater before the lecture began and started to "clean up" with a carving knife. So the hunter called the constable and spoke as follows to the Noble Huron: "Oh, grandson of Chingachgook, you are some speed on your Native Heath, but you are not a Household Pet. Back to the reservation."
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| C.J. Williams | Director |
| Carlton S. King | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Carlton S. King | |
| William Wadsworth | |
| Alice Washburn | |
| Elsie MacLeod |
