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The Phoney Express Synopsis

Little Nell, fighting her way to Hollywood in a covered wagon, is besieged by Indians on the plain, and her little party defends itself from the oncoming reds while Puffy rides the Phoney Express to bring aid. He carries his horse across a stream, only to be kicked back to the starting point by the nag. He fills a cannon with tomatoes and aims it at the Indians but catches his foot in a rope which swings the cannon around, giving one of the defenders a tomato surprise. The Indians circle around the hero, filling him full of arrows which fail to penetrate the pulp, so he leisurely saves the girl with whom he innocently walks off a precipice and lands in the current below, wet but happy.

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.