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- A girl farmer weds a faithless sergeant who is killed by her suitor, and realises she loves the bailiff.
- In the East London tenements lives one Alexandra Vickers, better known as "Viccy." She is rough-tongued, quick-tempered, and generous as far as her slender means allow. Her parents died when the girl was very young and left her to shift for herself. Later she takes up her abode with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith and their nephew, Albert Grummett. In the month of August the family decides to go to the hop fields and earn their living picking the sticky vegetable from which is made the national beverage, beer. About this time in America a wealthy contractor dies and leaves his immense fortune to Victoria Alexandra Vickers, the only daughter of his brother. A search is made for the girl and she is finally located in the hop fields. She is placed under the care of a Mrs. Carrington, to become polished. After "Viccy" leaves, Grummett, with five hundred pounds given him by the girl, sets himself up in business and is soon prosperous. Mrs. Carrington's son asks "Viccy" to marry him, as he needs money to pay his debts, and the girl accepts him. She later sees Grummett, however, and after discovering that Carrington wants only her money she goes back to Grummett, and East returns to East.
- Daisy and her husband both go in for a face-pulling contest, but when the big day comes she is unable to attend the competition, and her husband wins instead. When the next opportunity comes around, she is determined to win -- but gets a little over-enthusiastic on the way to the contest and finds herself in trouble! She is most ungrateful for her rescue; fate, however, catches up with her that night...
- A man returns from the colonies in time to save his Cockney parents.
- A boarding house skivvy helps a poor playwright, becomes an actress and saves him from an insane convict.
- A knight refuses to let her son wed a pregnant peasant so his daughter compromises herself with the girl's brother.
- A girl detective poses as an ex-convict to save an old woman from kidnappers.
- A Marquise objects to her son marrying a cockney, but they reunite on his return from the war.
- A rich man pretends his injured son's marriage is illegal and makes his wife marry a drunken wastrel.
- A shepherdess becomes an opera star. A shepherd becomes a sculptor.
- A rich artist changes places with a dead valet and weds a poor woman, only to find his valet had a wife and sons.
- A crook tries to make a thief of a boss's son and ties a flower girl to the lock gates of a canal.
- A drapery assistant tries to sell herself to her employer to save her sister from shame.
- An heiress takes the blame for stabbing her uncle, thinking her lover guilty.
- A fussy couple's nervous habits are imitated by their children.
- A ruined man turns thief but reforms to save his beloved from marrying a crooked lawyer.
- A doctor cures his wife of brain fever after she stabs her film star lover.
- A blacksmith's apprentice wastes his inheritance on a socialite and walks home to true love.
- A selfish actress weds her cousin's lover and dies saving her jewels from a fire.
- A millgirl is loved by the owner's son and the socialist foreman, who incites a strike and burns the mill.
- Old and young couples get their love affairs in a tangle.
- A waitress poses as a countess and weds a millionaire who loses his money.
- A tomboy posing as her sister is loved by a professor and his son.
- Actress Florence Turner does her impressions of various screen personalities, including such celebrities as Broncho Billy Anderson, Ford Sterling, Sarah Bernhardt and Mabel Normand.
- A French maid tries to inject a policeman with a love potion.
- Three rivals for a girl fight it out with pistols.
- A dog proves an inventor's daughter stole a diamond in her sleep.
- A shepherd's daughter is struck dumb when her dog frustrates an attack on her by a laird's mad brother.
- A widow tries to lure a rich man's son from her partner's daughter.
- A shy wooer feigns a head injury to gain sympathy.