The Cook of the Ranch (1911)
A cowboy falls in love with the buxom cook of the ranch, but the cook pretends to make merry of his tender sentiments. Filled with a spirit of harmless mischief, the cowboy scrawls a note to the cook, asking for a tryst. He then sends a similar note to "a haythin Chinee" who worked about the place. He then notifies the foreman, by a note, to be on hand to help along. But the joke was causing the foreman to so split his sides that he had to share it with the ranch owner, who in a convulsive fit had to tell his wife. She, hysterically, unloaded it on the maid. She in turn doubled up like a jack-knife and had to disgorge the secret to her sister. The cook, coming in unexpectedly, overhears how she had been tricked. Throwing down the smoking turkey she was carrying in, she seizes a rolling-pin and butcher knife and sets out to trail the cowboy. As stout as the cook, so was the cowboy. What a chase they had! The cowboy escapes her wrath, butcher knife and rolling-pin. Meanwhile there was no dinner. And everyone had laughed so much that they were monstrously hungry. Then an appeal was made to the cowboy, and he appealed to the cook, telling her how madly and jealously he loved her, and that was why he had acted as he had done. The love potion is effective, and the cook soon assuages the hunger of the ranch owner and all hands.
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GenresComedy
Short
Western
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
