It is Charlie's birthday. His wife, Vivian, gives him a dollar and tells him to buy himself a birthday gift. He goes out and finds a horseshoe. He imagines he is going to be lucky. He walks around the street and finds a wallet a man drops....See moreIt is Charlie's birthday. His wife, Vivian, gives him a dollar and tells him to buy himself a birthday gift. He goes out and finds a horseshoe. He imagines he is going to be lucky. He walks around the street and finds a wallet a man drops. He returns home with it. He hangs the horseshoe over his door, and shows the wallet to his wife. She makes him take it back. A boy who saw him pick it up, and who also saw the man who lost it looking for it, points Charlie out to him. The man decides to beat Charlie up for the theft. Charlie drops the wallet and runs. Vivian receives a new crayon portrait of her mother and asks Charlie to hang it. A series of accidents happen to him. He breaks the picture, falls down from the ladder and nearly breaks a leg. Ill luck follows. He decides the horse-shoe is the cause of his misfortunes, so he throws it through the window. The horse-shoe hits a man who is passing in the street. The man threatens to kill Charlie. Vivian rescues him just in time. A friend of Charlie's calls, and brings him a great floral horse-shoe. Charlie is convinced that his troubles will now start all over again. Written by
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