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A Pious Undertaking (1913)
Short | Short, Drama

A Pious Undertaking (1913)

Short | Short, Drama

The policeman had been married for about five months and was very happy. One day his wife made some biscuits and pies, which necessitated the taking of a small bottle of Jamaica ginger. Exhausted Eddy, a hobo, driven almost to the resource...See moreThe policeman had been married for about five months and was very happy. One day his wife made some biscuits and pies, which necessitated the taking of a small bottle of Jamaica ginger. Exhausted Eddy, a hobo, driven almost to the resource of working by the pangs of hunger, happened upon the policeman's wife's pies cooling on the windowsill. He appropriated two of them and vanished. The policeman watched this daring robbery without other comment than a happy smile. Exhausted Eddy ate the policeman's wife's pies and composed himself for sleep. While he slept the policeman came upon him, and blessed him silently. Exhausted Eddy, waking in fearful anguish, called loudly for a doctor. Since none came, he staggered forth to find one. Now, it chanced that a doctor rented the front room of the policeman's house, for an office. Exhausted saw the sign, and beat upon the door. The doctor was out. So was the policeman. Nobody was in except the wife. The tramp tottered about the house with low howls of pain. At last, attracted by the policeman's empty Jamaica ginger bottle, he clambered in the kitchen window. The wife fled in terror, telephoned to her husband, and barricaded herself in the doctor's office. In search of a doctor or medicine, the tramp went into the pantry, and found another pie. The sight was too much for him. He fainted. At the sound of his fall, the wife, shivering behind her barricade, also fainted, but recovered sufficiently to tell her husband of her terrible adventure. The last scene shows an affecting parting between the policeman and the man who saved his life by eating the pies. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Edward O'Connor Exhausted Eddy Exhausted Eddy See fewer	The Gilded Kidd (1914)
Herbert Prior The Policeman The Policeman See fewer	Why Girls Go Back Home (1926)
Sally Crute The Policeman's Wife The Policeman's Wife See fewer	The Widow's Breezy Suit (1915)
Carlton S. King Dr. Brooke (as Carlton King) Dr. Brooke (as Carlton King) See fewer	Just a Song at Twilight (1916)