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Byron Beanskin and Hugo Snubb, on the
brink of despair, are threatened to put one foot over when they
receive a laundry and rent bill for $20.02. Hugo Snubb having
broken his last nickel for lollipops, they ache for eats. When lo,
glad tidings, Byron is rich; someone has died that he might live.
With a new shroud, plenty of money, and
a "vally" in the person of Hugo Snubb, and with cards printed to
announce his importance, thusly: "Byron Beanskin. Worth
$20,000,000.36," he sallies forth to flock with the queens and
becomes a social lion.
At a garden party, a would-be pretender
to Beanskin's social position slits his trousers, forcing him to go
to a near-by body of water, where he must stand until a barrel is
procured that he might proceed to home, and bad news. He isn't
an heir, and as he finds out from the treatment accorded him by his
landlady, none of the glory of riches attach to him..
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