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Men were scarce in the little village, but a maiden lady well advanced in years was exceedingly hopeful that she would win a bachelor upon whom she had set her heart. He was a well-to-do farmer and seemed thoroughly satisfied to spend his ...See moreMen were scarce in the little village, but a maiden lady well advanced in years was exceedingly hopeful that she would win a bachelor upon whom she had set her heart. He was a well-to-do farmer and seemed thoroughly satisfied to spend his evenings with her. A little milliner opened a shop in the village, a distractingly pretty woman whom all the men liked and all the women cordially detested. The milliner looked with favor upon the spinster's suitor and promptly took him away with her. The happy conversations in the stiff old parlor were things of the past and never seemed likely to come again. The woman was very unhappy. Cupid seemed to have deserted her, but she found one of his aids in the chicken coop one evening. He was a tramp who had wandered in to annex some of their poultry. The spinster's brother, a crusty old bachelor, would have taken the tramp to prison, but his sister interfered, for an idea has suddenly flashed into her head. The next day an article appeared in the local paper, stating that a French nobleman was visiting the family. Everyone was very much interested and the excitement was very much greater when they beheld the nobleman himself. It was the tramp, but a liberal application of soap and good clothes had completely transformed him, and he bore himself with an assured and haughty air. The popularity of the spinster was greatly intensified, particularly as it was whispered that she would probably become the count's bride. Her former suitor became very jealous. He realized her good traits and despite the efforts of the milliner he proposed to the spinster and she promised to marry him, The tramp "nobleman" once more in rags left the village, but not alone, for he carried with him the fattest pullet in the farmyard. "It certainly was coming to him," the farmer said to his sister, and she agreed with him. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less