- Vic takes his family to a bungalow in the country and forgets to gauge the distance between the bungalow and the depot or to discover beforehand that he has only one train a day to depend on to get to business. Of course he misses his train the first morning. Some fun is also extracted from his attempt to get home from the village with the family supplies.—Moving Picture World, July 14, 1917
- Vic is at last settled with his family in his "dollar down and dollar when they catch you" bungalow "at Bentwood." Things are so cramped that he has to go outside and through the kitchen door in order to get his place at the dinner table. Vic figures that commuting is the "real life," and on his first trip to town his wife gives him a list of shopping to do. Vic starts for the depot which the agent told him was a stone's throw from the bungalow. After he has walked a couple of miles, he wonders what kind of a fellow threw the stone. He eventually reaches the depot, but just in time to miss the train. He is told the next train leaves same time the next day. He decides to "hoof" it to the office in town. Five hours later he arrives, only to find the office closed, it being Saturday and a half day. He decides then and there to do his shopping and get back to the bungalow. Vic goes from store to store and manages to get everything his wife has on the list, and at the finish he looks like a young "moving van." On his arrival at the station he is informed that the only train for Bentwood is at 7:15 that evening. He walks to the railroad yards trying to decide what to do when he comes upon two train hands with a hand car. They are going toward Bentwood, and he begs them to take him with them. They agree, and Vic gets on with his bundles. He does not go very far on the car before things begin to happen. First, Vic loses his hat, and then he loses one of the train men. A little further on the other train man is knocked off, and then the bundles. A couple of tramps are seated by the railroad track, and are wishing they had some good "eats" when suddenly Vic passes on his hand car and a chicken that he bought is knocked off the car into the hands of the tramps. Vic reaches Bentwood and the car becomes derailed, and up the hill it goes into the bungalow with an awful smash, for Vic cannot stop it. It hits the bungalow so hard that it knocks the cooking stove over and sets things afire. Vic manages to get off the car and rushes into the house. He gets all the family out and rushes back to save what he can. He manages to save a carpet sweeper and the coal scuttle, for the bungalow is soon in flames. It is only a short while when it is in ruins, and Vic, turning to his wife, says, "It's an awful joke on the agent; I've only made him two one dollar payments."
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