Avenged by the Sea

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A man with a very heavy jag on staggers from a saloon, and it happens that he is just barely able to remember that he started out to buy a calf's head for his wife He staggers to a butcher's and buys it, takes it under his arm and starts his zig-zag way homeward. But while leaning up against a wall to rest he falls asleep, and here is where two mischievous boys take up the proceedings. They take the calf's head from under his arm, remove his hat and placing it down over his skull, have soon fitted it on him in the reverse position with the ace backward. He awakens under the operation and the two boys begin to pull him through the streets. The trio run into two policemen and the officers promptly take the calf-headed man in band. They pull him through the streets just as a school dismisses its pupils and the horde of boys swarm around captive and captors, dancing joyfully and tormenting them. They finally reach the police station and here the magistrate orders the peculiar headgear taken off the prisoner, but he is hopelessly drunk and with many kicks and cuffs he is thrown into a cell. Here he falls asleep and his dream is shown. He finds himself in a garden where bottles and bottles of liquor dance before him and disappear when he tries to grasp them. Casks open and girls emerge, but as he tries to grasp them they disappear in flame. Enraged he routs them all and engages in a struggle with one of their number, a big, fat fellow ; but while they roll on the floor the drunkard remembers and finds himself fighting with a ponderous policeman. Help comes and the prisoner is dragged up the stairs and into the magistrate s office again, receiving many vigorous punches and kicks. Here he finds his wife, an energetic, little woman, waiting for him, and after glaring at him for a moment she calmly orders him out before her. He does so.