Henry's Package (1910)
"Henry" the Essanay comedy hero, is again brought into the limelight. We may suspect that either business or domestic troubles has caused poor Henry to take a drink, but he certainly has some "package" when he comes into view at the first of the film. We may label this, "Package No. 1." Henry wanders by an auction sale and at the opportune moment when the auctioneer is just starting bidding on a handsome umbrella vase Henry remembers his wife has wanted just some sort of a receptacle as this, and that it would be profitable to carry home some sort of a peace offering, he outbids all bidders, bundles the awkward and heavy object into his arms and starts on his way home. While en route home, Henry adds a few more drinks to "Package No. 1," leaving the vase outside each time. Pedestrians and passersby, mistaking it for a receptacle for city trash, dump all sorts of odds and ends into it. Two boys with dodgers get rid of a hard day's work by dumping the dodgers into the vase. Two other mischievous boys add to the weight by consigning a hod of bricks into it. A henpecked chap, whose sole duty is to care for "Fluff Fluff," a mangy poodle, watches his chance, and when his wife is not looking, drops the canine into the vase and starts the hue and cry that "Fluff Fluff" has run away. Other pedestrians make use of the vase in similar and varied ways, and last of all, a sneak-thief, hotly pursued by a copper slips a heavy pocket-book into the vase so as not to be caught with the "goods." Henry, after more harrowing experiences, arrives home and staggers into the house. But, alas, he stumbles over a footstool, just as he is about to present his purchase to his wife, and smashes the vase into a thousand pieces. Mrs. Henry upbraids her husband for his awkwardness and curiously brings out the odds and ends which Henry unknowingly brought home with him. Last of all she finds the pocket-book which is found to contain the price of fifty vases. Henry willingly accepts the incident as a direct gift of Providence and permits his wife to kiss and hug him to her very heart's content.
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