A Dummy in Disguise

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A rogue is passing a tailor's shop, when he is suddenly struck with the idea of taking a dummy's place outside the shop. He stands beside the other dummies. Closing up time arrives, and he is carried in without being discovered. When everyone has gone home, he steals out, breaks open the safe, till, etc., pocketing all the money he can find. Unfortunately, he cannot get out, the door being locked on the outside. When the morning arrives he is put outside the shop again, and many amusing scenes take place. In most of which poor dummy finds himself in a very had plight. Finally, he is discovered and marched off to the police station, where he receives his just punishment.