Summary
“What! No Spinach?” chronicles the misadventures of Harry Sweet, a perpetual ne'er-do-well whose chronic inability to manage finances renders him an outcast struggling to meet the most basic obligations. Residing under the watchful, increasingly impatient eye of landlady Gale Henry, Harry consistently diverts his meager earnings, or what should be earnings, into frivolous purchases, leaving his rent perpetually unpaid. This precarious existence teeters on the brink of eviction until a dramatic twist of fate intervenes. As Henry prepares to deliver the final notice, she fortuitously overhears a lawyer revealing Harry's unexpected inheritance of a substantial fortune. Overnight, the hapless tenant transforms into a coveted bachelor, suddenly pursued by a relentless parade of women, most notably his former landlady, all vying for matrimony and, presumably, his newfound wealth.
Synopsis
Harry Sweet in the story is an outcast from society, as he is a ne'er do well. He rents a room where Gale Henry is a landlady. He is unable to pay his room rent. Instead of paying his room rent with money he earned. Someone was always selling him something on his way home to pay the rent. Finally, the landlady threatens to put him out of the house, but as she goes to notify him, she hears an attorney reading the will of his grandfather, who has left Harry Sweet a million dollars. From then on he is chased by women, and his landlady Gale Henry in particular, all of the women trying to marry him.
