The Unlucky Fisherman

• 1910
• Other, Comedy

Simpkins and Todd had always been the best of friends until there was a question of going fishing together. Simpkins having found an unusually good place to cast his line, resented Todd's sitting on the bench beside him, but Todd refuses to move and Simpkins disgusted goes forth to look for another place. As soon as he is comfortably seated Todd comes along and annoys him again with his persistent fishing. The next place Simpkins tries he is annoyed by bailers. Finally finding a secluded spot, he settles himself for an afternoon sport. Just as he gets a bite he notices that Todd is also fishing beside him and has also got a nibble. They both reel in their lines simultaneously and find that they have both caught the same fish. He is a beauty, and neither fisherman wants to lose him. They get into quite an altercation and finally appeal to a policeman to settle their dispute. This worthy decides the matter by cutting off the head and the tail, which he presents to Todd and Simpkins, while he bears off the best part, much to the disgust of the disgruntled disciples of Isaac Walton.