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Learn more- Strolling by a large roller skate factory, Sandy and Shorty, those inimitable tramps, spy a track with a case of roller skates on it. They "borrow" the team and go for a joy-ride. The factory foreman discovers the loss and notifies the police, who start out in pursuit. The case is jarred off the wagon, swashed open and the skates thrown in all directions. A crowd collects and soon men, women and children are cutting up some astonishing capers, trying to skate. The police take the wrong turn at a fork in the road and are obliged to return. Sandy and Shorty notice the case is gone. They leave the wagon, mount the horse and ride back. Meeting a Hebrew push-cart peddler asleep beside the road, they leave the horse and take his cart. Sandy seats himself in it, insisting Shorty push him back to town. The Jew wakes up and is astonished to find a horse in the place where his cart had been. However, he mounts the beast, and on the way to town, finds the wagon. The villagers are cavorting dizzily around on the skates and Sandy and Shorty join the gyrating crowd. The police arrive and are seen by the two hobos, who make a comical getaway on their skates. After collecting the skates from the townspeople, and giving the peddler his push-cart, the police taking possession of the horse and wagon and the skates. The villagers spend the next few days nursing bruises and sprains. Sandy and Shorty hang to the rear of the speeding wagon on its way back to the factory, until they lose their hold and land upside down in the road. They then try various freak methods of progress on their skates, but finally compromise on plain walking. The factory foreman gives them a quarter for the return of their skates. They spend the money for liniment and proceed to alleviate the pain of their aching limbs.
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