Bobby Bumps is in an experimental mood today. He wants to go skating, and wonders if his Pa can, so he straps skates to his sleeping father. When a door-to-door book salesman shows up, guess who wakes with a start and can only stop with a collision.
This one will be harder for the sensitive modern to watch, because it concludes with a couple of standard-for-the-era jokes about Black people: the watermelon-eating youngster is not the sort of humor au courant these days. Even worse, during the acceptable sections of this cartoon, the humor is very mild by modern standards. We seem to have narrowed the targets acceptable for our humor, and strengthened the jokes about them.