Jake's Hoodoo (1914) Online

Jake's Hoodoo (1914) Online

Jake Towne, poor but enterprising, loves Lucy Small, who does not share her father's prejudices. She agrees to elope when opportunity offers. Jake is instructed by letter to be at Lucy's at dark, Friday, the 13th, when the coast will be clear. Jake, owning only one suit, upsets a pan of beans on his trousers. He repairs the damage with gasoline and hangs the garments out to air while he shaves. A tramp fresh from an encounter with a bulldog sees Jake's pants and succumbs to temptation. Jake, minus an indispensable article of attire, is desperate. Henpeck runs out of tobacco. Mrs. H. gives him ten minutes to get some. Jake holds him up and borrows his loud but whole trousers. Henpeck, frightened to death of his wife, wraps a blanket round him and sneaks home through back alleys. But Mrs. H. has already gone to look for him. She sees his trousers going down the street with a girl, follows them to the minister's, and sets the policeman on the track of the bigamist. The bridegroom is ...