Gratis (1911)

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• 1911

A grocer has placed a label bearing the word " Gratis " against a pile of leaflets outside his shop. A clumsy person knocks it down and carelessly replaces it on the stall against a tin of biscuits, and a number of small boys have a feast until the shopman discovers them and hurls the card away. It lands by accident just by the side of a dummy figure displaying a suit of clothes outside a tailor's shop, and a tramp dons the garments and confronts the police, when the shopman summons them, by pointing to the label. The latter is again thrown away, and this time it lands on the sun-blind of a restaurant, just under the word " dejeuner," so that the restaurant is filled with a ravenous mob. When bills are presented there's trouble, and the notice takes another flight and lights on a cab, the driver of which is asleep, but is wakened to find his cab full, and drives off, unconscious of the surprise in store for him.