在这部The Ranger's Bride喜剧/短片/西部片中,
The story concerns Bill Dunham, a droll cow-puncher, who finds that home without a wife may have its advantages, "but durned few," and a good woman who can sew on buttons and make flapjacks is worth more than much silver and gold and the liberties of single blessedness. Opportunity knocks at Bill's door. Indeed, it comes in the form, almost, of a veritable slap in the face, a flagrant dare, an invitation as a guest of honor at Dame Opportunity's table, and it comes at the psychological moment when Bill is struggling with a shirt that needs mending and in the form of an advertisement in the "Mustang Bugle" to the effect that "a lone spinster, with a large fortune, who can cook and sew, desires a husband." So Bill writes a letter to the spinster stating that he will be her tootsum henceforth and forever more, with instructions how to reach the village of Mustang. Bill's secret, however, becomes public property when the boys, his pals, follow him to the mail box and get the letter. It is...
