A Mislaid Baby

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Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, proud parents of William Brown, Jr., aged six months, start out to purchase a baby carriage. A suitable perambulator, at a very reasonable price, is on display in front of a furniture store, and Mrs. Brown, turning William. Jr. over to her husband, enters the store to ask the clerk about it. While she endeavors to drive a bargain with the proprietor of the store. Brown grows weary of waiting, and placing the baby in the coveted carriage seats himself on a bench and becomes absorbed in his paper. Mrs. Smith, also on the lookout for a baby carriage, is attracted by the beauty of the carriage in which William Brown, Jr. is reposing, hastily calls a clerk, pays him instantly he names the price and wheels it away, entirely unaware that the vehicle has an occupant. Brown continues to read his paper. Mrs. Smith arrives home, leaves the carriage outside, and sends the maid with her infant out to inspect the new carriage. The maid hurriedly enters again, with William Brown, Jr. in her arms. In the meantime. Mrs. Brown, unable to strike a bargain with the furniture man, leaves the store, when the discovery of the kidnapping is made known. After a tedious search they find Mrs. Smith and the newly purchased perambulator, and William, Jr. is restored to his own.