Hiram Scroggs sells his restaurant in Silver City, Colo., to the Widow Chase. Bill and Jack are rivals tor the widow's hand. Jack buys a beautiful lace shawl for the widow and leaves Sam hold it while he goes in for a drink. Bill meets Sam...See moreHiram Scroggs sells his restaurant in Silver City, Colo., to the Widow Chase. Bill and Jack are rivals tor the widow's hand. Jack buys a beautiful lace shawl for the widow and leaves Sam hold it while he goes in for a drink. Bill meets Sam who tells him of the shawl and Jack's intentions. Jack induces Sam to give him the shawl and to fill the box with straw. Jack then gives the shawl to the widow. Bill than calls on the widow and gives her the box filled with the straw. The widow, indignant, throws Jack out and Bill who is enjoying Jack's discomfiture, proposes and is accepted by the widow. They are married and Bill proposes to take life easy, but the widow compels him to do his share of the work in the restaurant, making him waiter as well as porter, much to the amusement of Bill's friends, who had always known him as a hard customer. Written by
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