Jack's Birthday (1909)
Jack O'Rourke and his wife, Molly, have just moved into their new flat and it happens that Jack's birthday comes on the same day that they take possession of their new domicile. On his way to the new abode. Jack has stopped to visit some of his bartender friends taking with him from each place a small parcel until when he pulls up at the street dour of the apartment building, he is carrying with some difficulty a large sized "package." Besides the package he has managed to bring with him other articles: a turkey, handbag full of bottles, a small pup. Jack finds he has left his latch key at home and after ringing the bell for some time with no answer, borrows a ladder from a workman nearby and enters his new flat via the fire escape. Molly, in the meantime, had waited patiently for hubby, and each time the bell rang had answered it to admit a messenger boy. The first one brought Molly a new hat, the second a large bouquet of carnations and the third a portrait of some gentleman individual whom she did not know. Each token bore the legend, "From your loving Jack." The latter gift mystified her, but she resolved to wait until Jack came home, when he would undoubtedly clear up the mystery. When Jack enters Molly has gone in search of the janitor and Jack immediately suspicions something when he discovers the new hat, flowers, and the portrait of the gentleman on the sideboard. Molly and the janitor enter and Jack crawls under the table. He is convinced that the janitor is his wife's lover. There is finally a fight in which the janitor is sadly worsted and kicked out of the room. A few minutes later the first messenger boy enters and says the hat he had delivered some time ago belonged to "de loidy" upstairs. The hat is turned over to the messenger boy, while the two other gifts, which Jack had destroyed, are substituted with clever imitations. Finally the janitor brings in a policeman to arrest Jack, but the officer of the law is unceremoniously rolled into the folding bed and the bed closed on him. Jack and Molly then sit down to their repast, while the policeman peeks out from the side of the folding bed and looks dolefully on.
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