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Rapt d'enfants

Des misérables font le commerce d'enfants volés. Nous assistons au rapt de plusieurs enfants, puis à l'arrivée de l'un d'eux dans le taudis des voleurs où le dernier enfant est dépouillé de ses vêtements et transformé en mendiant; il accompagne ensuite ses voleurs sur la route pour exciter la pitié des passants charitables. Sa mère le reconnaît tout à coup et fait arrêter les voleurs.

GAU 1904-06

The Two Little Vagabonds; or The Pugilistic Parson

Illustrating the Rescue of Two Kidnapped Children.

A fine stirring subject of an appealing nature. The scene opens with two little ragged urchins obtaining water from a pump into an old earthenware jug, which in the next scene we see them bringing to a gipsy camp. Where an old woman sits peeling potatoes outside a tent, beside a rough camp fire, over which a pot is boiling.
As the two little urchins arrive, one stumbles and drops the jug, which smashes on the ground; the woman, in a rage, calls her husband, a typical gipsy, from his tent, who, seizing a rope-end, proceeds to thrash on of the boys. The other pluckily attempts to interfere, but only draws the punishment upon himself, with the result that he is being brutally and unmercifully flogged, when help intervenes in the shape of a passing curate. The parson takes off his coat, and being defied by the gipsy, who strikes him, proceeds to give the latter a taste of his own physic. He knocks the brute down after a short struggle, and in short thrashes him, then, carrying one of the boys in his arms, and taking the other by the hand, removes them to more kindly custody, leaving the beaten gipsy upon the ground, where wife and faithful dog endeavor to comfort him.

Subject of Excellent Quality, which will appeal to any audience.

GAU 1904 GB