The Wooing O't (1910)
In quest of a better knowledge of botany and a closer touch with nature, a party of young girls rent a small cottage in the country and take possession of it with their preceptress, who is an expert botanist and very little experienced in affairs de Coeur. Coincidentally a class of young fellows rent the cottage next door to the girls with the avowed purpose of studying geology under the tutelage of an old professor, whose heart might be mistaken for a geological specimen before it was analyzed by the aforesaid preceptress. It does not take long for the boys to learn who their next door neighbors are, and the girls are not slow in acquainting themselves with the presence of the boys, and soon the merry dance begins, each boy pairing himself off with one of the girls, of which the observing professor and preceptress take note and decide to do likewise. Everybody seems to fall in love with each other, or someone else, but Sam; he has no one to love him, and has to depend on his ever-ready appetite, which seems to be his constant companion and best friend, who finds an abiding consolation in apples and cats. The professor carries his research into the methods of his pupils in winning the hearts of the girls, and he decides to practice them in laying siege to the heart of the fair "Letitia," otherwise known as the preceptress. He notes that they hold a buttercup under the girls' chins and ask them: "Do you like butter?" wherewith the professor proceedeth to try it on Letitia, who is tickled to death with the professor's attention and the remembrance of her girlhood days. She is filled with the spirit and gets quite kittenish, and remarks to the playful ways of her charges, and determines to imitate them. One of the girls, while picking the petals from a daisy, says, "He loves me; he loves me not," and is caught in the net by her sweetheart, who kisses her. Letitia happens to be looking at the episode and says, "I will try that on the professor," and she does. Then the professor sees one of his boys and a girl with a straw in their mouths, each chewing on an end until they come to the middle, when they kiss. The professor seeks out Letitia and works the straw game on her. With what success the two elderly sponsors keep up their young friends can best be judged as they put into execution their youthful mimicry. They put one in mind of a couple of stiff-jointed mechanical toys trying to palm themselves off as a couple of sappy kids. They are the funniest yet, and a little more so. But even their poor foolish attempts at the rejuvenation of their susceptibilities are better than Sam's loneliness, who, with a "no-one-to-love-me" expression, is about to commit suicide by jumping into the lake with an anchor fastened to a rope around his neck; and he would have done it, too, if he hadn't found an apple lingering in the recess of his shirt bosom, and once more the passions of his soul are subdued by the supremacy of his appetite. He immediately removes the rope from his neck and begins to surround the apple with his own fat personality. The picture closes with Sam's smiles and the apple's finish.
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