Puppy Love

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Jimmy buys tickets for the picture theater, and Ann is in love with him. Her mother tells her it is "puppy love," and she cries. Jimmy is crazy about a spoiled, pretty girl who scorns him because he has no money to spend on her. Mary Ann determines to earn enough money to buy some finery so that Jimmy will love her. She appeals to the cop, O'Brien. He gives her the job of scrubbing the station floor. She buys pretty things with her dollar, and goes out on conquest bent. Jimmy, longing for money to treat the pretty girl, sees Mrs. Kelly drop her purse. His impulse is to return it. But he stuffs it in his pocket instead. She sees him. and tells O'Brien to arrest him. O'Brien does so, but Mary Ann interferes. She says that it is all the fault of the "vampire," and that Jimmy is the man she loves. O'Brien lets him. off ashamed and grateful to Mary Ann, who, for reward, asks him shamelessly to kiss her.