The Jones' ten-year-old hopeful, Johnnie, is sent to reform school tor hitching behind streetcars. The news stuns his doting parents, especially when Uncle John writes that he is coming to see the boy, with the idea of making him his heir....See moreThe Jones' ten-year-old hopeful, Johnnie, is sent to reform school tor hitching behind streetcars. The news stuns his doting parents, especially when Uncle John writes that he is coming to see the boy, with the idea of making him his heir. In consternation, Mrs. Jones implores her gardener to impersonate Johnnie. The man refuses. The woman is more successful with her butler. At the same time Jones, ignorant of his wife's endeavors, gets his chauffeur to impersonate Johnnie. The gardener repents his refusal and decides to carry out his mistress's wishes. Uncle John arrives at the house and is confronted by the butler wearing knickerbockers prancing about with elephantine grace. Later, Jones presents him to the chauffeur, "Johnnie." To cap the climax, the bewhiskered gardener playfully appears as the third "Johnnie." While the dazed Uncle John regards the three, the real Johnnie enters, having been released by the Judge, who has reconsidered his decision. Uncle John leaves in a rage. Later the Joneses receive a letter from their relative: "Have willed my fortune to the Orphans' Home." In anger, the doting parents turn upon the cause of the trouble and give him the best licking of his young life. Written by
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