Happy, a tramp, finds a horseshoe, and immediately his luck changes for the better. He finds a basket of lunch that a workingman left, and has his first meal in days. He next picks up a cigar butt and is about to smoke it, when a gentleman...See moreHappy, a tramp, finds a horseshoe, and immediately his luck changes for the better. He finds a basket of lunch that a workingman left, and has his first meal in days. He next picks up a cigar butt and is about to smoke it, when a gentleman passes and gives him a good cigar. He walks in the park and from a passing automobile espies a suit case fall therefrom. He picks it up and finding it full of clothes, dons himself out in high class and brand new raiment. Walking along a street he passes a window and the wind blowing a twenty-dollar bill out, it falls in Happy's hat. He kisses the horseshoe and vows never to part with it He goes into a swell restaurant and has a good feed. He emerges and sees a tough assaulting a young woman. He rescues her and while she thanks him, the tough vows vengeance. Happy walks along and the tough gets one of his cronies and pounces on him. They are beating him up, when he pulls out his horseshoe, for luck. A policeman hails in sight and chases all three. Happy, still believing in the horseshoe, hides, and the policeman passes him and arrests the other two. Happy resolves that his horseshoe has brought him some luck and determines to be respectable. Written by
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