Driving Home the Cows (1912)

• 70%
• 1912
• Drama

While driving home the cows one evening, a boy decides to go to war. He falls to win his parents' consent as they have already given the lives of two sons to the great cause. The boy, therefore, steals away in the night, stopping to say good-bye to his young sweetheart. In a hotly contested battle, the boy is wounded and taken prisoner. The report of his death is brought to the lonely farm. Upon the aged father devolves the task of driving home the cows. One summer evening as he strolls down the path, tired from his day's labors, he sees the cows coming. Behind them appears the figure of a youth with an empty coat sleeve. Great is the father's joy when he recognizes his son, and happy are the old mother and young sweetheart as they behold the brave lad coming home with the cows.