- A shepherd returns to work when his son-in-law drinks his daughter's dowry.
- Old Luke has been a shepherd for many years upon the moors of Cornwall. When Thomas Drake marries his daughter, Ellen, Luke decides that the time has come to retire. Accordingly he takes Thomas to his employer and asks that his flocks may be given into the hands of his son-in-law. The employer consents and Luke retires to a peaceful old age. The married life of Ellen and Thomas is not. However, destined to progress as peacefully. Thomas has a selfish, intolerant nature and is very unpleasant to his patient wife whenever anything goes wrong in the domestic, arrangements. When he comes home one day and finds that his dinner is not ready for him, he scolds Ellen in round terms and sets out for the "Load of Mischief" inn. Bess, the barmaid at the inn, always eager for the opportunity to make mischief, devotes all her energies to winning Thomas away from his wife. She flatters him and encourages him to spend his money. Thomas, greatly struck by the attractions of the inn, persuades Ellen to give him the dowry old Luke has given her out of his hard-earned savings. Part of the money was to buy a bracelet, for Bess, and the remainder goes the way of all the rest, over the counter of the "Load of Mischief." When Thomas is wrung dry of money Bess jeers at him and taunts him with being a simpleton. Mad with anger the man goes home. He gruffly refuses old Luke's request for a pipeful of tobacco and informs Ellen that he has spent all the money of the dowry. Stunned by the discovery that his hard-earned savings have been swept away so wantonly, Luke rises and solemnly curses his son-in-law. Thomas leaves the house and the old man again takes up his position as sheep herder. But Luke has grown old very fast in the time since he ceased his labors. The duties of tending the sheep which once seemed so easy, are now really arduous exertions for his weary old limbs. And so it happens that when the repentant Thomas, walking slowly in the fields, sees the old man struggling with a heavy trough and comes to his assistance. A reconciliation is readily effected and Thomas returns to his sorrowful wife.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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