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Professor Copdyke is working on a machine to advance or reverse a person's age. He knows he can do it if he keeps at it long enough, but it gets on his family's nerves, for when he wants a ... See full summary

Professor Copdyke is working on a machine to advance or reverse a person's age. He knows he can do it if he keeps at it long enough, but it gets on his family's nerves, for when he wants a subject for experiment he takes a wheelbarrow, a bottle of whiskey and some chloroform and brings home a tramp. Fanny's sweetheart Jim is a man of resources. He wires a circus agency to send him a dwarf. The dwarf arrives just as the professor has concluded some improvements. He is about to start out with his wheelbarrow when Jim offers himself as a substitute. He is placed in the cabinet, and while the professor is answering a fake telephone call, Jim and the dwarf change places. Presently the professor returns, and when he sees the dwarf come from the cabinet in Jim's clothes he knows he has made a success. The "child" is given proper clothing and fed, but when the dwarf throws food at the professor and breaks up the china, the professor shoves him back in the cabinet. Another switch is made and ...