Hank and Lank: They Get Wise to a New Scheme (1910)

• 67%
• 1910
• Comedy
• Gilbert M. Anderson

In this instance Hank and Lank step into good fortune quite by accident. Pausing in front of a bargain dry-goods store, a young lady rushes up and asks Hank to hold her baby while she goes inside to make a few purchases. Shortly after she returns and liberally tips the little man for his services as nurse. Lank sees how easily Hank has made his money and resolves to try the trick himself. Hank agrees to help him, but they wait some time and no lady with an infant to hold puts in an appearance. The scene changes to the lawn of a residence nearby and shows a young woman and her husband about to take the baby out for an airing. The mother insists that she has too much work to do and turns the baby over to her husband with instructions that he be back in half an hour. The proud young father and his charge are returning home at the appointed time, when two jolly young fellows stop them and invite Father into a saloon for a drink. Father cannot resist the temptation, and when Lank appears on the scene he puts him in charge of the baby and tells him he'll be out in five minutes. Five, ten, fifteen minutes drag by and Lank yawns. Pulling a pillow from the baby-cab, he makes a bed on the sidewalk and drowses off to sleep. A moment later he awakens to find the mother of the infant yanking him to his feet and demanding to know where her husband is. Poor Lank suffers a good drubbing at the bands of the irate mother, when the father with his two friends come on the scene. Lank has not waited for his tip, and the Father hurries off after his angry wife.