A man and a woman are captured by a mad scientist and kept like caged animals in his personal zoo in the jungle.

An honest one-armed beggar gets a less than honest artificial limb — one with kleptomaniacal tendencies that land him in jail.

A rich man is robbed of his clothes by an escaped convict and is mistaken for a fisherman by the convict’s sister.

Friends Percy and Bobby become the butt of each other’s practical jokes on April Fools’ Day.

A woman fakes suicide to test her husband’s love, but he knows her game and decides to play along.

Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter lest she be taken.

When Lampblack and his friend Bobbie witness a girl being kidnapped, they decide to rescue her themselves.

A pretended cripple is the centerpiece of a con artist’s plot to fleece the gullible believers of a small-town faith healer.

When an innocent woman is kidnapped by a rival group of outlaws during a turf war he had a part in starting, bad-man Cliff Hudspeth reforms his ways to rescue her.

A collection of fragmentary sequences from The Messenger, in which slapstick antics follow Hank as he lackadaisically goes about his messenger job.