Under the Old Apple Tree (1910)
The peddler burdened with his pack, trudging along, weary and footsore, holding his little motherless child by the hand, stops under a shading tree and bids the little girl, who is no less tired than himself, to sit under the tree while he tries to dispose of his good, and he will return for her in a short time. The child falls asleep. The father, in crossing a roadway, is struck by an automobile and is taken to a hospital unconscious. The little girl awakens from her nap, and when she finds herself alone, begins to cry and starts running in a frightened daze, calling for her father. The children of a widow, a big-hearted farm wife, are playing under an old apple tree. The peddler's child is passing and is heard crying. One of the children hears her as he is standing on the ladder at the top of the wall, and he and his sister bring the poor child to their good mother and she takes the little one into her home as one of her own. The peddler recovers from his injuries, is discharged from the hospital and goes in search of his child. While passing under the old apple tree where the children are playing, where his child found friends and a home, he sees the apples hanging from the branches and climbs the wall to help himself to some. When he gains the top of the wall the children are again seen playing under the old apple tree, this time increased by the presence of the peddler's own child. He is astonished and delighted and unhesitatingly jumps down among the youngsters and clasps his little daughter to his bosom. The child tells her little friends about her papa, and they all take him to the good mother, who gives him a position to help her in running the farm. The next scene is some time after the last one, and it shows the former peddler carrying the children on his back, for he is now their stepfather, while the kindly housewife is the stepmother of his child.
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