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- Alice is the daughter of a fisherman. She gathers herring to support her family. Alice's folks are worshipers of the cuckoo clock. Even the dog bows his head in prayer when the cuckoo cuckoos. Joe, a sailor, loves Alice. He calls on her at midnight, and takes her to a cabaret. While there, a sea captain falls in love with Alice, and strange things come to pass when Alice sees the hula hula dancers. Joe takes Alice home under great difficulties Alice and Joe are happily married and are proprietors of a lunch room. Undaunted by his previously unsuccessful attempts the sea captain is still bent on possessing Alice, and lays his plans to kidnap her. Alice is kidnapped, and is placed on a sea going vessel. Just as Joe comes home. He pursues the yacht with his billowy sail boat. Just as he is about to catch the vessel he is lassoed and left mercilessly to drown. Instead, Joe pulls himself up on the rope and outs his way in through the boat. Meanwhile, Alice is having her troubles trying to keep the captain out of her stateroom. Joe rescues Alice, and there follows a lively boat chase with marines, patrol boats, etc. Alice and Joe manage to destroy the lighthouse in which the captain and his crew sought to shelter themselves. A novel ending follows.
- Alice appears as Minnie Grabit, just released from prison. She poses as a Salvation Army girl long enough to collect loose change, then later becomes a nurse and finally a servant girl. The incidents are of the knockabout sort, and the eccentric characterizations are funny.
- Alice is the scullion in a kitchen and around the house. Although loved by the fat cook and the iceman, she elopes with the son of the house. Action becomes faster and soon furious after the marriage. The cook gets into a balloon, whose anchor picks up folks and drops them without regard to their dignity or anatomy. Then the hook-anchor picks up the house containing the bride and groom. The house and its contents fly all over the countryside to a whirlwind finish.
- Alice has a job as a cleaner in her step-father's garage; and, being in love with her co-worker, a machinist, who in turn is lured away by a vampire of the worst character, Alice tries suicide. She takes gas, inflates and floats away through the roof. Alice has a fairly poor time of it all the way through, although right finally does manage to triumph; by a hair's breadth.
- Alice plays a blacksmith's daughter. She falls in love with a "city feller" and bursts into high society after marrying him. The action is of the burlesque, knockabout type.
- Benjamin Bunk, has two daughters with the names of Lotta Bunk and the other Bessie Bunk. Father catches Bessie's sweetheart Billy Bones, putting a ring on her finger and throws him out. Lotta is washing her pet dog "Itches" in the bathtub and the dog throws some soap in Alice's eyes. He runs out into the parlor where Bessie and Billy are again making love. The dog shakes himself and gives them a bath. Billy runs after the dog, who runs into garden where Dad and Mother are having a pleasant chat. The dog again shakes himself and Dad and Mother get all wet. Billy is looking for the dog, but can't find him. He takes the garden hose to drink from, just as Dad comes on, seeing Billy drinking water, he thinks it was he who had squirted the water on him, and kicks him around the garden. Brutus Beanpole Alice's sweetheart calls to see her in his flivver. He chains the flivver to a stump in the ground. In so doing he drops the bouquet which he had brought for his "sweet". He comes into the house, kisses his sweetheart, hands her the flowers, and hides his face. She smells the flowers and gets her face full of mud. Alice throws the flowers at Brutus and runs away angry. She runs into the parlor, sits down on the settee and cries. Brutus takes the flowers out of the vases, brings them to Alice and begs forgiveness. She forgives him and washes his face for him. Father comes into the house and sees Brutus and throws him out. Alice runs after her sweetheart and they jump into his flivver, but had forgotten it was chained. The back wheel goes round and round kicking the mud into Dad's face. Dad goes to the pool to wash his face. Brutus gets out of the flivver, unchains the wheel and throws the stump away. The stump hits Dad bending over the pool and throws him in. This infuriates Dad and he chases them. They have a great deal of motor trouble. Brutus gets under the car, just as a water-wagon comes along, and washes Brutus into the sewer, but gets out of a man-hole. They get in the car again, ride away, with Dad running after them. The flivver bounces so much that Alice is thrown out and lands on a rope strung from two poles. Then Dad gets her and brings her home. Dad then puts the two girls into a boarding school. While at the school, the girls have boxing matches. The sweethearts disguise themselves as girls and gain entrance into the school. Their identity is discovered, and the boarding school mistress chases Bull after them. Alice and her sweetheart, and Bessie and her sweetheart jump into the flivver which is again tied to a tree. The flivver is ripped in two leaving the Billy and Bessie in one half and Alice and Brutus in the other. Billy manages to chain the two parts together again and they ride into eternal happiness.