The Doctored Dinner Pail (1909) watch online HD

Harrigan, a helper on a steam road roller, after a hard morning's work, finds a comfortable seat on the roller and proceeds to enjoy his noon hour lunch, reinforced by a generous pail of ... See full summary

Harrigan, a helper on a steam road roller, after a hard morning's work, finds a comfortable seat on the roller and proceeds to enjoy his noon hour lunch, reinforced by a generous pail of beer. The engineer, a practical joker, observing Harrigan's peaceful attitude, slyly pours some machine oil into his beer and hides to watch the result. Harrigan's next sip causes him to bounce up in bewilderment. Harrigan realizes the joke, and, to get even, pours the beer into the water tank of the roller. Then the trouble begins. The roller begins to act in a very queer way. The engineer loses control of it, and it rushes up and down the streets like a thing possessed. On its return trip it runs over Harrigan, who has been standing in the middle of the road enjoying the engineer's predicament, and flattens him out like a pancake. The engineer is horrified and gets an air-pump and tries to restore Harrigan. In this he succeeds, but finds that Harrigan is entirely too tall, so he gets the heavy ...