The film is only fifteen minutes long but, like a cartoon short, packs a lot of splendid visual and slapstick humour within that run time, along with some delightfully terrible one-liners as part of the intertitles. But, most notably, it clearly hows just how brilliant the twentysomething Stan Laurel was at physical comedy.
It's clearly of another era, of course: a world of hen-pecked husbands and tyrannical wives who were sometimes (gasp) suffragettes, a time when horses and carts were still a common sight on the road, and a time when one could casually remark that one was going out to "kill a giblet for diner". And there's a baby in this short, who would certainly be a centenarian if alive today.
Some things are timeless, though, and the comic potential of a hose is certainly one of them. The film is genuinely funny, with some top quality physical comedy acting from all involved, and the hopefully romantic ending is cute. The film is freely available on YouTube and is certainly worth a look.
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