He was a very jovial tramp, but his joviality didn't win him the luncheon he so fondly coveted. He experimented with it on the workman with the fat bundle of luncheon and quantity of beer ... See full summary
How the Tramp Got the Lunch (1909) Online
He was a very jovial tramp, but his joviality didn't win him the luncheon he so fondly coveted. He experimented with it on the workman with the fat bundle of luncheon and quantity of beer surrounded by bucket, but the workman was decidedly blind to Handsome Harry's qualities as a good fellow. He was annoyed, if truth be said, and Harry, of the battered silk hat, felt his annoyance distinctly. Not being able to secure a share of the food and drink by fair means he determined to secure all of it by foul, and accomplished his end. He stowed the workman, when that individual was deep in a fatal, unsuspecting moment, in a cask and literally rolled him away. The luncheon and the drink was his, but not for long. As he moved away from there, trying to perform the triple feat of eating, drinking and running at the same time, a brawny fellow-workman stopped the flight of the cask downhill, released his co-laborer from the embrace of the staves and hoops, and the tramp's enjoyment was speedily ...
Released as a split reel along with Closed on Sunday (1909).