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Goat Getters Synopsis

Jackie and Tom are assistants in a nursery. Their job is to take care of the babies which tired mothers leave there while doing their shopping. Their duties are numerous, for the nursery is equipped with cubby-holes in which each baby is stored and a machine which bathes and dresses the infants. -The Mayor lives next door to the nursery and the noise and the tricks which Jack and Tom play on him annoys him so that he decides to spend the rest of the summer at Restwell Springs. Hardly has he become settled there before the nursery forces, accompanied by a few of the babies, arrive on the scene. Jack and Tom don't lose any time in starting mischief. Finally the Mayor in desperation calls the council together and proposes an ordinance prohibiting babies being born under twenty years of age. Their deliberations are interrupted by the kids, who have succeeded In substituting a hornet's nest for a roast and the hornets successfully break up the meeting. The Mayor chases the kids into the woods. Determined on revenge they procure a bear skin and attempt to frighten the Mayor who sees through the trick and lays for them with his cane. But a real bear emerges from the woods and chases the Mayor back to the hotel. The sick guests of the sanitarium suddenly regain their health and discard wheelchairs and crutches in a wild scramble for safety. The bear follows and soon clears out the hotel. Jackie and Tom are enjoying the fun hugely when the bear catches sight of them. They climb into their daschund-o-mobile but the dog refuses to pull until he sees the bear headed for them and then he dashes off down the road at express-train speed.

Mary's Ankle Synopsis

While walking along the street one day, Arthur P. Hampton, an impoverished young doctor, and his chums, Stub Masters and Johnny Stokes, are persuaded to part with their last remaining funds by tag day solicitor Mary Jane Smith, with whom the doctor promptly falls in love. Doc's friends then hit upon a get-rich-quick scheme. Knowing that his Uncle George has promised a large sum of money upon his nephew's marriage, they persuade Doc to send out fake wedding invitations naming Mary Jane as the blushing bride. Uncle George, elated at the good news, writes to Mary Jane's aunt, Angelica Burns, an old sweetheart, to invite Mary Jane and Angelica to be his guests on an ocean voyage. Meanwhile, Mary Jane pays a visit to the doctor's office and, upon seeing the wedding invitations, becomes so flustered that she trips and sprains her ankle. Doc comes to her rescue and then begs her to pose as his wife. She agrees, but at ship-side, Stub and Johnnie confess all to Uncle George, who flies into a rage until Doc announces that he and Mary Jane have chosen a wedding at sea.