Polidor's High Hat

It is Polidor's wedding day, and, as usual, the little man is unpunctual. At last the irate best man gets on the telephone and tells him to hurry up. In his anxiety Polidor sits on the tall hat which is to put the finishing touch to his costume. Not a hat in the house is suitable for the occasion, and Polidor hurriedly rings the best man again and tells him of his plight. Straightway all the gentlemen guests are sent out in search of a hat. Meanwhile Polidor himself, on the way to the house, jealously observes every tall hat he sees, and in turn attempts to steal those belonging to a coachman and others, while, when he at last discovers a hatter's, he in his anxiety wrecks the whole place in his efforts to obtain a suitable tile. Polidor is kicked out, and the shop man telephones for the police, the latter, led by a commissioner in his sash of office and wearing a resplendent tile, encountering Polidor. The latter takes to a lamp-post for refuge, and even takes the commissioner's hat as he passes. A hot chase is set up, but Polidor eludes the officers, and although he loses the commissioner's hat, he triumphantly purchases in its place the miniature hat which a blind beggar's dog wears, clad in which he at last appears at the bride's house. Soon, however, the guests appear with piles of hats in all shapes and sizes, and Polidor is persuaded to relinquish his miniature headgear in favor of one made for a man three times his size.