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- The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.
- Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
- Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.
- After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.
- An unrepentant crook enters a dance hall and gets in a fight over a girl. As he, unknowingly, breaks into her house, another bloody mess stains the residence's thick carpets. Can a simple act of kindness pave the way for his regeneration?
- "Weekend King" is the story of Rupert Coleman, a Silicon Valley computer programmer who made a fortune in the dot com boom. Stuck in an unfulfilling job, Rupert discovers an internet story about a bankrupt town in Utah called New Spring. Rupert sets out to buy the town and contacts New Spring's mayor to offer to purchase the town's property in order that it can pay off its debts. It's an offer the mayor cannot refuse, and Rupert becomes the savior of New Spring and transforms the lives of those living in it. Rupert falls in love with Jesse, a New Spring artist and shop owner. Rupert's love is unrequited until Jesse is led to believe that Rupert is also an artist after finding a sketch that was actually drawn by Rupert's friend and co-worker, Tom.
- Reno Bill, a desperado, discovers the sheriff and the express agent in the act of holding up the stage. The next day Reno Bill is captured by Fred Church and his young assistant, when they find him annoying a pretty young girl. They take him to jail and when the bandit sees the sheriff and agent he contemptuously tells Church of their treachery. Fred locks the three in jail together and place his assistant on guard, while he goes out to visit with the girl.
- Broncho Billy, an outlaw, is captured but eludes his captors, and while making his getaway, runs upon the county judge's daughter, who is helplessly trying to stop her runaway horse. He makes a thrilling rescue while going at top speed on horseback, but is captured by the posse and taken back to town. When the young lady recovers consciousness she asks for her rescuer. When told who saved her, she rushes to town, and after explaining to her father that Broncho Billy saved her life, the outlaw is released.
- Broncho Billy plays a practical joke on an old friend, but it backfires when the man has a heart attack.
- Alkali Ike eludes his wife and attends a performance at the Snakeville Opera House, where Prof. Hippy is demonstrating his wonderful hypnotic art. Alkali Ike is finally persuaded to go up on the stage. The professor hypnotizes him. The clever and eccentric situation that derive from Alkali being hypnotized, are excruciatingly funny. Mrs. Alkali is finally called in to overcome the hypnotist's influence over her husband, and believe me, she does.
- A husband, desperate to save his sick wife, steals two horses. Their young daughter tries to protect her father when Bronco Billy comes to search their house.
- Broncho Billy, foreman, finds Tom Warner has squatted on a section of Stockdale's ranch. He complains to the owner, who tells him to oust Warner. The squatter, however, refuses to go. Marguerite, the ranch owner's daughter, while on a shopping trip to town, has trouble with her saddle. Warner goes to her assistance and man and girl immediately fall in love with each other. Warner meets the girl again, but Broncho Billy, who is also in love with Marguerite, and the father, on finding the pair together, are furious. Father orders the daughter home and tells Warner never to speak to the girl again. Shortly afterward, the ranch owner is shot. Broncho Billy, to get even with Warner, secretly arranges things so that his rival is accused and finally banged on circumstantial evidence. The following fall, Broncho Billy proposes to Marguerite, but visions of the dead man haunt him, and in trying to get away from them, he hacks out of an opening in a barn loft and is killed,
- Broncho Billy comes between a Mexican thug and the young woman he is disturbing. The Mexican plots revenge for the insult and captures Billy, who has rescued a lost old man. The young woman discovers Billy being held prisoner and rides for help. The townsmen gallop toward Billy's rescue.
- Broncho Billy, a cowpuncher, is elected to the office of deputy. The sheriff is in love with Gertrude Scott and fears that his deputy is smitten with her. An outlaw has been terrorizing the town and the sheriff determines to capture him. He meets the outlaw in the woods, gives him money and promises him his release the following day if he will give himself up. The sheriff is proclaimed a hero. That night the outlaw escapes and the deputy captures him. The bandit squeals; the sheriff is ousted and Broncho Billy not only wins the office but the love of the pretty Gertrude.
- The hotel proprietor is a grouchy piece of humanity, and when his daughter receives attentions from young men he becomes very irate. To cap the climax, his daughter falls in love and becomes engaged to a fine-looking young chap. When the father discovers this, he rushes out and shoots his daughter's sweetheart. The wounded man is carried into the hotel and when his fiancée attempts to dress the wound, she is stopped by her father. Broncho Billy, who happens to be a guest at the hotel, hears the disturbance, and while a friend is rushing for the doctor, he holds the angered parent at bay at the point of a gun. The father then is forced to consent to his daughter's engagement.
- Gilbert Sterling had never wanted for anything. He had been given plenty of money to do with as he pleased, and it was perhaps the fault of his parents that he became worthless, good-for-nothing. The firm of John Sterling and Sons bad been organized by his father, and. when Gilbert was old enough, he took active part in the management. Gilbert's love for the gay life led him away from his duties, and it was nothing unusual for him to spend six nights out of the week with questionable company. Early one morning, intoxicated, Gilbert finds his way to his home. His father reprimands him and finally puts him out of the house, telling him "never to return." Ralph, Gilbert's brother, is engaged to a society belle by the name of Gertrude Chapin, and the end of the second reel shows the two families making arrangements for the wedding. Years later, we see Gilbert a ragged, good-for-nothing tramp in the far west. His happy-go-lucky ways and mannerisms are appreciated by the men in the small town, who pay little attention to him, except for contributing the "makings" or an occasional twenty-five-cent piece. In the meantime, Ralph has engaged in a crooked deal. His father becomes furious and will not reconcile himself to the commercial transactions. The son leaves his office, swearing that he is through with the firm. Sterling and Son, forever. He associates himself with another company and forces his father to the wall, breaking him. The old clerk, who had befriended Gilbert many times, pleads with Ralph to help his father, but for his trouble he is requested to leave the office. Gilbert befriends an Indian who is taken with smallpox, and as a reward, Is left a deed for the Lone Star Mine. He prospers, and after months of labor, becomes very wealthy. His father and mother, in the city, now destitute, are taken to the poorhouse, Ralph having refused to help them in any way. A letter from the east informs Gilbert of his parents' whereabouts, and he hastens to them, restoring them to their old home. Ralph tries to corner the wheat market and Gilbert gets the tip and "breaks" him, and the pretty society butterfly Ralph had married deserts him, now that he is penniless. The worthless son finally saves the life of his brother, and a happy ending takes place, the family now reunited and the old firm name "Sterling and Sons" re-established.
- Broncho and his wife arrive in a new country and settle. They are treated with all kindness by a man who later turns out to be a moonshiner, and Broncho, not having any special occupation, is induced to help the outlaw in his work. One day while Broncho is at work, the moonshiner goes to his helper's home and forces his affections upon his wife. Fearing that she will tell her husband, the moonshiner goes to the government officials and tells where Broncho is at work. Broncho is arrested, but asks to say good-bye to his wife. When they enter his home they find the outlaw again insulting his wife. Broncho is released, while the real law offender is arrested.
- A world-weary mother, penniless and widowed, leaves her starving infant in the tonneau of Broncho Billy's limousine. Broncho Billy, a rich man, discovers the infant in his car and, although delighted with the "novelty," feels in an awkward position. The child is cared for, however, and in spite of the ridicule heaped upon him by his club friends, Broncho Billy is big-hearted and rears the child to maturity. The girl is about nineteen years old when she falls in love with a nice sort of a fellow who wants to marry her. Broncho Billy himself has just about decided to ask her to marry him when they come to him for his blessing. Realizing that she would be happier with a younger man, he gives his consent.
- Dan Hart, a ranchman on the Mexican border, starts for a distant town with a load of cattle, leaving his wife and daughters alone in the house. Several hours later one of the girls is getting water at the creek when she hears the sounds of battle and discovers the Mexicans and rebels are lighting again. Hastening to the ranch house she tells her mother and the woman prepares for any emergency. That night four of the rebels cross the border line, discover the flag flying in the ranch house yard and are hauling it down when one of the girls fires from the window and wounds one of their number. Pretending friendship the rebels gain entrance to the house, overpower the girls and imprison Mrs. Hart in an upstairs bedroom. The brave woman manages to free her hands, lowers herself from the window, swims across the creek to the barn, saddles a horse and rides madly for the sheriff. Meanwhile, the rebels find some liquor in the house and become boisterous. Watching their opportunity the girls manage to escape and take refuge in the barn. Galloping into town Mrs. Hart rereads the news and starts back on a wild ride with the sheriff and posse. Discovering the flight of the girls the rebels are reeling out of the house when the posse dash up. The ruffians attempt to escape to the woods, but are shot down by the enraged cowboys. Returning to the ranch house the boys find Mrs. Hart and her daughters clasped in her husband's arms.
- Evelyn and Irene Courtney, through the helplessness of their father, who is a cripple, are given charge of the general store and post office. A large bag of gold with registered letters, etc., are delivered by the mail carrier one day. Dick Lee, a notorious outlaw, sees the delivery of the valuable bag. That night, with a gang, Lee breaks into the post office and would have carried off the treasure, had not Evelyn escaped through a back window, mounted her horse, and rode away. One of the men sees her, however, and the three go in pursuit. Irene is quick to inform Broncho Billy, and the latter arrives just in time to save Evelyn from the hands of the bandits. The three are captured. Broncho Billy falls in love with Irene and the two are left to plan their future happiness.
- When a woman's heart turns to stone, that is the time to watch out for her, for the possibilities are that you win lose her. This was Broncho Billy's experience, anyhow. Although he had been warned that a Mexican was trying to steal his wife away from him, he trusted her implicitly. The time arrived, however, when the Mexican tried to elope with Broncho Billy's wife. Unexpectedly Broncho Billy returned to his home and discovered that the Mexican was hiding in the clothes closet. To give him a good scare, Broncho Billy fired a few shots into the closet, above the head of the villain. Though it hurt him beyond expression, Broncho Billy ordered the Mexican on his horse, placed the weeping form of his wife beside him, and ordered them away, never to return again.
- Broncho Billy shoots an outlaw for making a disrespectful remark about his sweetheart. After the shooting he hastens to her home and tells her he has shot a man, but does not know who he is. Shortly after the remainder of the gang of outlaws arrive and, to learn the direction Broncho went, tell her it was her father who was shot. She then tells the direction of her sweetheart's flight. A few minutes later her father comes home and she realizes her mistake. She dashes after the gang and by a short cut heads them off, and tells them that Broncho is hiding in her home. They return, giving Broncho plenty of time to escape.
- Broncho Billy's brother, Dick, is madly in love with Nellie Parsons. Jack Dupont, a mining engineer from the east sees pretty Miss Parsons and becomes infatuated with her. Not waiting for an introduction, Dupont follows and introduces himself. A few days later, Dupont proposes and is accepted. Nellie returns the engagement ring to Dick. Dick informs his brother. Broncho Billy, about the engagement being broken. Broncho Billy determines to bring the two together. That night at the town saloon, where the men are engaged in a game of poker, he asks permission to take a hand, and is permitted to do so. After taking away all of Dupont's money by the modern method of card playing, Broncho Billy agrees to play him for his diamond ring, his scarf pin and a solitaire engagement ring, which Dupont had purchased that day for Miss Parsons. Broncho Billy wins everything. Being a "game" gambler, Dupont agrees to play for anything that Broncho Billy may suggest. Broncho Billy tells him he will play tor his signature on a note that he will write. Dupont agrees. Broncho Billy writes the following: "Dear Nell: I am not on the square with you. Am leaving today. Forget me." Broncho Billy then puts up all of his winnings and they draw cards. Broncho Billy again wins. Dupont leaves the town. Dick, Broncho Billy's brother, returns to his sweetheart and Broncho Billy fills a two heart flush by breaking a pair.
- Broncho marries a Mexican girl at the earnest entreaty of her dying father. Later a Mexican singer wins her love and, to get Broncho out of the way, she has him arrested and jailed on the charge of having assaulted her. In a frenzy of rage, Broncho secures the sheriff's revolver, escapes from jail and tracks the pair at his shack. Meanwhile the Mexican singer's sweetheart, jealous of his attentions to Broncho's wife, reaches the shack first and, when Broncho bursts in, gun in hand, he finds the pair dead on the floor, her knife having found both their false hearts.
- Juan, a greaser, tries to influence Tom Morgan to steal some money from his wife. Juan finally persuades Morgan. The money Morgan gambles and loses. A week later, Juan discovers the express agent placing two bags of gold in the safe. Juan induces Morgan to help him rob the office. Evelyn, Morgan's wife, overhearing the conversation, notifies Broncho Billy, Broncho Billy gets the strayed husband out of trouble.