The Office Boy's Revenge

Edison summary: The scene opens with office boy making love to the typewriter. The bookkeeper enters and objects. After presenting typewriter with a bouquet, the bookkeeper sits down at his desk and falls asleep. Office boy tickles his ear with a feather. Thinking that it is a fly, the bookkeeper protects himself by hiding his head under the lid of the desk. The boy then places a basin of water on top of the lid. The old broker enters and finds the bookkeeper asleep. The latter awakes suddenly, throwing the basin of water in the air. The water lands in the face of the typewriter. Bookkeeper turns the boy over his knee and gives him a sound thrashing.