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- The story of Charles Peace, one of Britain's most notorious criminals. Peace was an expert in cat burglary. The film reconstructs Peace's real-life leap from a train on his way to trial for the murder of Arthur Dyson.
- A drunken clubman sees visions and reforms.
- Fight between a knight and a forest hermit.
- A squire's murder of his pregnant mistress is revealed by a mother's dream.
- A shipwrecked sailor sends a bottled message to his wife and is saved by a battle ship.
- Painters fight with black and white paint.
- Three hunters surprise two poachers in the act. The hunters take umbrage and give chase over fences and through fields. The hunters fire away, but the poachers have guns as well, and a fight ensues with casualties for the hunters. Two cops appear and so do dogs as the chase continues. Will the poachers escape, or will they, like the game they were after, be trapped?
- Boys cause a fight between a tramp and a gentleman in a park.
- A brutal man rebuffs a beggar and is chased into a stream.
- Two tramps string a PC with sausages and pelt him with eggs.
- Boy swimmers upset a bench and throw lovers into a stream.
- Two men take the place of wax dummies and strike passers-by.
- Two tramps attack a cyclist who sets a dog on them.
- A tramp steals clothes from a washerwoman, and flees on a bicycle.
- A boating party ends up in the river.
- An Irishman gets drunk and throws his wife through a window.
- A lawyer tries to drown a thatcher to prevent his marriage to an heiress.
- Vowing not to let his family starve, a man steels a sheep and is pursued by the farmer and the police.
- A dude fights a rival and they end up in a stream.
- A convict escapes from a quarry, steals a cart, is wounded by the warders and captured after a fight.
- Reproduction from the well-known scene of "The Two Orphans."
- Police chase poachers and fight them in a river, but they escape by boat.
- Tramps take over the shop of an absent barber.
- Mary goes into a pub, and feeling dry, she takes another customer's beer and drinks it. When rebuked for this, she drenches the other customers with a soda syphon, and then lays waste the whole pub.
- Mary is brought before a magistrate, charged with the crime of beating a policeman with a stick. She leaps over the bar, assails the police and hurls an inkpot at the magistrate, hitting him in the eye. Eventually she is subdued and taken away for punishment.
- Mary, the worse for drink, beats a policeman with a stick, and is hauled off to appear before a magistrate.
- Boys push a PC and a farmer into a stream.
- The village lads and lasses engage in a snowball fight, during which they also pelt pedestrians and a cyclist: but they are then assailed by a big, powerful female, "Mog the Fireman" (who is none other than our old friend Mirthful Mary), who gives a good account of herself against enormous odds.
- A lawyer locates a locket and a witness to save a mute from a murder charge.
- A nurse enters a park, with her baby in a pram - but she is pre-occupied with her soldier boy-friend. Dusty Rhodes the tramp has a thirst, and starts to quench it from the baby's bottle. Seeing him, the soldier chases him round the park bench, and throws him down, unfortunately onto the pram, flattening it and the baby in the process. Dusty makes off, pursued by the soldier, the nurse and flattened baby.