Ellis Parker Butler

Flannery, a railway agent does everything by the book. He gets into a scrape with a customer, McMorehouse, who wants to pay 44 cents freight for two guinea pigs which he considers pets. Flannery, however, considers them pigs (freight 48 cents), a decision he begins to regret when the animals begin to reproduce.

In this comedic short, two pie vendors discuss merging their businesses, but one of them may have an ulterior motive.

A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.