Henry's New Hat (1910)
Henry (our old friend again) is the chief clerk in a big real estate and insurance office. He is a dapper little fellow with great pride in his personal appearance, and Henry's Clothes, his hat, his gloves and cane are both the pride and fun of the rest of the office boys. But, to go on with the story. Henry resolves to buy another hat, "something really swell, yon know." So he hies him to the hatter and looks over the hatter's supply. Various styles and shapes and sizes, soft crushers and dinky dicers, are laid out for his inspection until "the" hat, a shiny silk opera affair, the very latest Parisian creation, is placed in his hands. Henry surveys himself in the glass approvingly. "Ah, my dear hatter," he comments, "this is some hat. I'll take. Send it to my office." The hatter's boy, an ambitious youth, arrives at the office ahead of him and deposits the hat on Henry's desk. After the boy leaves Henry's pals gather around, remove the box lid and peer curiously in at the hat. All agree that the hat is a "pippin" and, always mindful of some deviltry or other, they decide to have some sport with their immaculate chief. One of them substitutes an old battered "dicer" for the new hat and when Henry arrives all immediately ask him to let them see his new hat. "Ah, boys," he says, "allow me to show you, really, the swellest thing in town!" He opens the hat box smiling happily and lifts the battered skypiece from its receptacle. With mingled surprise and rage he looks at the hat gingerly while the boys look wonderingly on. Still raging, Henry turns to the 'phone and, as mad as the proverbial hatter, denounces the merchant as a cheat and a liar. While he is hurling his invectives into the surprised ears of the hatter the boys remove the old hat and replace the new one and when Henry turns from the 'phone they thrust the box into his hands and advise that he annihilate the hatter who could play such a witless and malicious joke. Henry rushes back to the hatter and hurls the box in his face. The merchant opens the hat box and there is another surprise, of course! For, behold the bright shiny tile which he originally purchased! The hatter puts him out and the conclusion, a crushing one, comes when the hat is trampled under the feet of a crowd pursuing a street thief!
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