Tin Wedding Presents (1910)
Our hero and his wife have just experienced one of those demoralizing and harrowing experiences of a wedding anniversary party, when people congratulate you on having traveled so far into the state of matrimony without having walked into the abyss of divorce, and a lot of other silly rot. It is Henry and wife's tin wedding, and the guests have left them everything from a tin kitchen spoon to a clothes holler. Henry wants to get rid of the stuff, his wife objects. Henry, the obstinate, makes secret plans and goes out to find an accomplice. He approaches a tramp in the park and offers him $25 if he will steal into his house at night and remove the objectionable furniture. The tramp agrees, and Henry presses his latch key into the tramp's hand, agreeing to pay over the money immediately the staff is out of the house. In the middle of the night Henry hears someone in the dining room and goes down to investigate. Sure enough, his tramp, as he thinks, is on hand. Henry points out the bundle of tinware, presses the money into the surprised burglar's hand and tells him to beat it. The burglar goes out with the tinware and Henry goes back to bed. An hour later he is aroused from his pleasant dreams by the creaking of the front door. He goes downstairs and finds a supposed burglar bundling up the silverware and without investigating further, thrusts the intruder into a closet and calls the police. When they arrive the tramp is dragged out, and Henry discovers his mistake. He has sent a real burglar off with the tinware and has arrested his tramp and accomplice. He is forced to tip the policeman substantially before they will let the tramp go and also makes good with the tramp. This practically cleans him out, but the real climax comes when, the next morning, an expressman drives up and delivers the basket of tinware with this brief note from the burglar: "I don't want dis junk, what do you tink I am? Pay de expressman." "The charges are five dollars," remarks the expressman. The bewildered Henry pays this last debt and turns the tinware over to his wife, muttering exasperatedly, "Never again."
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