Charles Eldridge

Charles Eldridge

Born: July 25, 1854
Died: October 29, 1922
in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
From Wikipedia

Charles Eldridge was an American stage and screen actor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the film industry he appeared in over 100 films, although the majority of those were film shorts. He began on the stage during the 1870s, and appeared in at least one Broadway play, Charles Frohman's 1899 production of Because She Loved Him So. His first appearance in film was in a 1910 short, The Legacy, in which he starred. His first appearance in a feature film was in The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray. In addition to the over 100 shorts he was in, Eldridge appeared in 27 feature films between 1914 and 1922. In his roles in full-length films, he would usually appear in a supporting role, although occasionally be given a lead, as in 1917's Polly of the Circus, 1920's Broken Hearts, and 1922's Ashamed of Parents. Polly of the Circus was notable for being the first film released by Goldwyn Pictures, which was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, mostly at rented space at the studios owned by Universal Studios.

His final screen appearance would be in a supporting role in the 1922 film, No Trespassing, which starred Irene Castle of the famous dancing team, Vernon and Irene Castle. No Trespassing was released on June 11, 1922, and Eldridge would die soon after, on October 29, 1922 in New York City.

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Hearts and Spurs
Title: Hearts and Spurs
Character: The Sheriff
Released: June 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Oscar has been sent to the plains to make a man of himself, is soon visited by his sister Sybil Estabrook, who travels west along with her maid in tow. Oscar, who has been losing at cards to Victor Dufresne, is forced by him to rob a stagecoach in order to pay off his gambling debts.
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Made in Heaven
Title: Made in Heaven
Character: Lowry Sr.
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.
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The Woman Game
Title: The Woman Game
Character: Jacky Van Trant
Released: January 5, 1920
Type: Movie
To please her once wealthy mother, Amy Terrell fraternizes with members of high society who find her entertaining because of her beauty and charm. At one of Mrs. Van Trant's house parties, Amy is requested by her hostess to amuse Andrew Masters, an influential businessman who has an aversion to society women. Impersonating an old-fashioned girl, Amy wins Masters until he learns of her deception and denounces her.
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The Birth of a Soul
Title: The Birth of a Soul
Character: Lem Barlow
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Mountain families feud.
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Eye for Eye
Title: Eye for Eye
Character: Tootit, the Clown
Released: December 22, 1918
Type: Movie
The daughter of an Arab sheik falls in love with a French naval officer, thus breaking the strict rule of social law of her people, as well as her religion.
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His Father's Son
Title: His Father's Son
Character: Adam Barron
Released: March 19, 1917
Type: Movie
Thrown out of his dad's house without a penny to his name, playboy J. Dabney Barron is told not to return until he has proven that he can keep a job for an entire month. After several false starts, our hero is hired to keep flighty heiress Betty Arden out of trouble. He not only succeeds but manages to get his hands on a valuable jewel that has long been coveted by his father.
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The End of the Tour
Title: The End of the Tour
Character: Seth Perkins
Released: January 29, 1917
Type: Movie
A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind. The boy, Byron Bennett, grows up, and is stranded back in Mayville with a theater troupe. To make enough money to get out of town, they teach the local fire department how to put on a play. While the village cutie Grace Jessup is being shown how to act, one of the troupe tries to seduce her. Byron, knowing what the lecher is up to, even if Grace doesn't, follows the pair and chokes the man senseless.
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The Pretenders
Title: The Pretenders
Character: Silas T. Pettingill
Released: August 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Upon striking oil on his farm, Silas T. Pettingill (Charles Eldridge) moves to Park Avenue at the behest of his social-climbing wife Maria (Kate Blancke) and daughter Helen (Emmy Wehlen). But like Jiggs in the comic strip, Pettingill never loses his common touch, and one evening he goes out on a toot with his new chauffeur Hubert Stanwood (Paul Gordon).
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As in a Looking Glass
Title: As in a Looking Glass
Character: Senator Gales
Released: March 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Scandalous European temptress Lila Despard, travels to America to escape her lover, criminal Jack Firthenbras. On the ship, she meets Andrew Livingston, a United States Navy planner, and Senator and Mrs. Gales. Her new friends host a party for Lila in Washington, D.C., where a spy named Dromiroff threatens to expose her past unless she steals Andrew's secret naval plans. In order to secure the papers, Lila makes love to Andrew, but the plan backfires when she falls in love with him.
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The Vanishing Vault
Title: The Vanishing Vault
Character: The Detective
Released: May 7, 1915
Type: Movie
While stopping at the Bronzegilt Hotel, Slick and Slim, two high-class and well-dressed burglars, overhear Baroness Vodka tell the manager she wishes to place her million-dollar box of jewels in the hotel vault, which is set into the wall at the end of the hallway. The manager accordingly escorts her to the big safe, and she watches him place the little box inside. Next morning the manager goes to cash a check for the Baroness, and finds the whole vault has completely vanished.
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The Wheels of Justice
Title: The Wheels of Justice
Character: John Reynolds
Released: April 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Ralph Brooks, although engaged to Julia Dean, meets and becomes infatuated with Rita Reynolds. She gains his sympathy by telling untrue stories of her husband's brutality. They plan to run away together but while Rita is taking a large sum of money from her husband's safe, he returns early from a business trip and a fight ensues which results in her husband's death.
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The Man, the Mission and the Maid
Title: The Man, the Mission and the Maid
Released: January 17, 1915
Type: Movie
Living in adjoining homes at Oakdale, Hal Oilman and Alice Blanchard are childhood friends and playmates. Some years later. Hal goes to college, and while there makes a bitter enemy of Bert Peyson by exposing him as a card cheat and a thief.
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Fixing Their Dads
Title: Fixing Their Dads
Character: Livingston
Released: November 18, 1914
Type: Movie
Both deadly rivals for the hand of the Widow Hathaway, Kirkland and Livingston, gentleman farmers, are so bitter, they do all possible to break up the love match between Dick and Florence, their respective children, causing great unhappiness.
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Bunny Backslides
Title: Bunny Backslides
Character: Dr. Sweatem
Released: October 30, 1914
Type: Movie
While Flora Winslow, a widow is engaged to Bunny, she attends a lecture on eugenics and decides that her intended husband is too fat. She tells him he must reduce, and as she wishes to become stouter, they agree to attend Dr. Sweatem's Sanitarium.
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Hearts and Diamonds
Title: Hearts and Diamonds
Character: Toper Staggs - The Uncle
Released: September 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team.
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Two Stepchildren
Title: Two Stepchildren
Character: Hazel's Stepfather
Released: July 2, 1914
Type: Movie
Born with an artistic temperament, Joe Leigh feels keenly the bitterness and drudgery of life on a small farm and longs to get away from it. Jabez, his uncle, who owns the farm, is a hard, matter-of-fact man, utterly out of sympathy with his nephew's ambitions.
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Up in a Balloon
Title: Up in a Balloon
Released: December 16, 1913
Type: Movie
The Simpsons go for a picnic in the woods. After luncheon, while mother and father enjoy a nap, Betty, their beautiful daughter, strolls away, picking flowers. When near a hillside, Betty sees a snake and screams. She starts to run away, but bumps into Billy Gilwater. He kills the snake and Betty calls him a hero.
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Under the Daisies
Title: Under the Daisies
Character: The Lawyer
Released: September 12, 1913
Type: Movie
There are many things to admire besides settings and acting in the feature play "Under the Daisies," and perhaps the foremost is the affecting poem on which it is based. It chiefly concerns the bad conduct of a dramatic critic-it is about time his villainy is shown up on the screen-who starts on his downward path by cynical observations on the agonizing efforts of an unsuccessful playwright. As nearly all well-known dramatists of to-day have found their way into one of the most trying of professions through channels of criticism, the selective taste of one serving to determine how much an what kind of creative work of the other will be suited to the tastes of a mixed audience, the playwright in this case is of a theatrical kind, one who uses a pen or pencil in writing and gazes at vacancy in search of inspiration. A very large proportion of authors in real life do nothing of the kind. Perhaps that is why the dramatist in the story failed to make a hit.
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Fortune's Turn
Title: Fortune's Turn
Character: Tom's Father
Released: September 9, 1913
Type: Movie
A short social drama about an unemployed young man who begins to steal, but then repents and performs a heroic deed.
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The Pickpocket
Title: The Pickpocket
Character: Bob - Patrick's Friend
Released: July 21, 1913
Type: Movie
A John Bunny comedy short featuring his usual leading lady Flora Finch. Confusion over a stolen ticket puts Finch in jail.
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The Butler's Secret
Title: The Butler's Secret
Character: Barrow the Butler
Released: June 6, 1913
Type: Movie
After a serious quarrel with his father concerning his debts, Wallace Dixon leaves the house in anger, declaring that he will live his life as beat pleases him. That night, Alfred Dixon, the father, hears a noise by the safe in his bedroom, where he is sleeping, and shoots at the intruder who escapes unharmed.
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Bunny's Honeymoon
Title: Bunny's Honeymoon
Character: Valeria's Father
Released: April 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Bunny's niece has a beau who is so addicted to drink that her father will not permit her to marry him. He has given the lad a chance, but when he comes upon him drink again, he orders his daughter to break it all off. She goes to Uncle Bunny, who thinks up a scheme to cure the drunkard. In pursuance of this, he brings the lad, so drunk that he can't see straight, to his home and by dressing up in woman gear, and by borrowed kids, makes him think he has married a fat widow with many children. The poor lad is so greatly worried that when he wakes up next morning, he really swears off. So. in the end, the lovers are happy.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Sanders Webster
Released: January 13, 1913
Type: Movie
To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years old, who had been deserted by her parents. Fifteen years later, Gavin Dishart, the Little Minister, receives an appointment, his first, at Thrums, Scotland. This was made possible through the self-sacrifices of his widowed mother, to educate him for the ministry. The community of Thrums is made up of weavers, who work hard, have little and accomplish much. They are ultra-religious and look upon their pastor with such reverence that he is a little lower than the angels. While naturally intelligent, they are grounded in dogma and intolerance. Just after the Little Minister takes charge of the "Auld Licht Kirk" and the Manse, the weavers resent a reduction, by the manufacturers, in their pay and a strike is declared.
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The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance
Title: The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance
Character: The Ambassador, Visconte di Jarlais
Released: January 10, 1913
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks are employed to get possession of valuable papers of international importance, held by the French Ambassador, Vicomte de Jarlais. They are also instructed to get the Ambassador out of the way and make it appear that he has committed suicide. His mysterious disappearance arouses the United States Secret Service officers
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A Cure for Pokeritis
Title: A Cure for Pokeritis
Released: December 31, 1912
Type: Movie
This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.
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The Reincarnation of Karma
Title: The Reincarnation of Karma
Character: Mr. Adams
Released: December 27, 1912
Type: Movie
In India, Leslie Adams dreams of a priestess who is turned into a snake by Karma, the high priest. While touring a ruined temple, he finds the snake, who is said to resume human form every 100 years. Assuming her human form, Qunitreea give Leslie's fiancée an amulet, causing her to fall into a permanent sleep. Leslie realizes he is the high priest Karma reincarnated, and that Qunitreea has had her revenge.
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Following the Star
Title: Following the Star
Character: Mr. Winthrop - Helen's Father
Released: December 20, 1912
Type: Movie
Helen Winthrop has ambition for the stage and when, during his summer sojourn at her home town, she is introduced to De la Marre, a popular star and dramatic favorite, she is elated and asks him to give her a part in one of his plays. He consents and from that moment she becomes restless, and longs to shake the dust of her village home from her feet. Her old sweetheart, John Tobin, is no longer in her class and receives a very cold goodbye when she leaves to shine in the limelight.
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An Elephant on Their Hands
Title: An Elephant on Their Hands
Released: October 15, 1912
Type: Movie
While in his cups, an older gentleman buys a surprise for his family—one that eats peanuts and weighs 11,000 pounds. (MoMA)
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Corin, a Shepherd
Released: October 6, 1912
Type: Movie
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
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The Red Barrier
Title: The Red Barrier
Character: Professor Bain
Released: October 4, 1912
Type: Movie
A short romantic drama about a woman who is worshiped by both a lieutenant and a Russian diplomat; the latter wins, but later turns out to be a brute. A duel in the snow ensures that the lieutenant gets the woman, but both of them suffer from visions in which the deceased appears as soon as they try to get together.
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She Cried
Title: She Cried
Released: October 2, 1912
Type: Movie
A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory.
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The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton
Title: The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton
Character: Dr. Charles W. Clinton
Released: August 20, 1912
Type: Movie
An old doctor hires a young new doctor to join his practice, particularly to attract women for more business.
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The Cross Roads
Title: The Cross Roads
Character: Abel Hale - Charity's Father
Released: August 6, 1912
Type: Movie
A melodrama about a girl who has to marry the landlord in order to save her parents’ home.
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Half a Hero
Title: Half a Hero
Character: Mabel's Father
Released: June 7, 1912
Type: Movie
Silent movie
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An Eventful Elopement
Title: An Eventful Elopement
Character: Mr. Wright - Pronubial Father
Released: June 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Emphatically opposed to Jack Moss, old Mr. McGillicuddy puts the ban on his marriage to his daughter Dolly. The old gentleman is adamant to the appeals of the young lovers and interposes his interference on every occasion, when they get together. McGillicuddy is seized with an attack of the gout, which handicaps him, and it is then Jack arranges with Dolly to elope.
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The Picture Idol
Title: The Picture Idol
Character: Mr. Ward - Beth's Father
Released: May 31, 1912
Type: Movie
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her parents want to teach her ​​a lesson, and invite the actor to their home.
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The Spider's Web
Title: The Spider's Web
Character: Graham Lawlor - Trevor's Father
Released: May 14, 1912
Type: Movie
American horror crime movie from 1912.
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Captain Jenks' Diplomacy
Title: Captain Jenks' Diplomacy
Character: Sir Brian
Released: April 13, 1912
Type: Movie
Sir Brian, an irascible old gentleman, who suffers from gout, receives a note saying his son Gerald is very ill at college, and asking him to come to Dublin. He is too ill to go so he gets his friend, Captain Jenks, to go instead of him. Jenks finds Gerald being nursed by a pretty girl and soon discovers that Gerald is in love with her.
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Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Title: Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Released: March 23, 1912
Type: Movie
The night of the grand reception and dance finds Belle Oakley in high glee as she leaves for the reception. She arrives at the reception and discovers that she is without her dancing shoes. She announces her loss and immediately all the young men volunteer to go in search of them. Harry Brown, who was not as quick as the others, is left behind and sits dejectedly on the curb while the others drive away.
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Mr. Bolter's Infatuation
Title: Mr. Bolter's Infatuation
Character: Mr. Merker - a Friend of Mr. Bolter's
Released: March 22, 1912
Type: Movie
Mr. Bolten is hoping to woo the dancer Céleste and invites her for coffee. Her answer is that she will wait for him in hotel "Des imbeciles' in New York. He obviously cannot find the hotel, and to make matters worse he is robbed by a pickpocket. As a consequence he cannot pay his restaurant bill and is arrested. Luckily for him, a friend pays his bill so he can return home. There he picks up a dictionary and sees what "imbécile" means.
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Stenographer Wanted
Title: Stenographer Wanted
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: February 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Two businessmen need to hire a stenographer, but their wives get suspicious when they notice a parade of beautiful young women entering and leaving their husbands' office.
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The First Violin
Title: The First Violin
Released: February 2, 1912
Type: Movie
Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from the theater the old musician finds little Helen sleeping on the steps of the stage door. He picks her up and takes her to his comfortably furnished home. The old man even grows childish, he is so pleased with the little tot's presence and he gives her the love with which his heart abounds. The next day he learns from the morning papers that Helen's mother and father were lost in a fire. He spends many happy hours with her, playing with her toys. He takes her to rehearsals with him, where she is the pet of the musicians. One year later Helen shows an aptness for the stage. This delights the old musician and the child grows nearer and dearer to his heart. A sad blow, however, comes to him when the Children's Society take the little girl away from him and once more he finds himself a lonely old man.
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The Meeting of the Ways
Title: The Meeting of the Ways
Character: The Gambler
Released: January 12, 1912
Type: Movie
Tom and Dick are brothers and are being educated at the same college. Tom is a studious fellow and graduates with honors, while Dick is expelled from college through misbehavior. Dick is ashamed to go home, but before leaving Tom gives him a locket containing a picture of their mother. Ten years later Tom, who is a successful lawyer, is married and has two little children. Dick, who has now been reduced through personal neglect to a derelict, overhears a plan to rob his brother's house. Making up his mind to prevent it, Dick climbs through the nursery window, catches the burglars, but effects their escape. His two little nieces, who have been watching him, kiss and hug him before he makes his exit. When their parents return from the reception they attended, the children relate to them what had happened. Dick gets into a scrape with a gambler a month or two later, who laughs at the miniature of his mother that Dick puts up in lieu of cash.
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Captain Jenks' Dilemma
Title: Captain Jenks' Dilemma
Character: Sir Brian Squills
Released: January 8, 1912
Type: Movie
Mrs. Brown, who is a widow, finds it a rather difficult matter to clothe and feed her large family of children, so when she becomes acquainted on the beach with Captain Jenks she is not slow in inviting him to her house. That evening the Captain calls with an engagement ring. He asks the widow to become his wife, but just as he is accepted Mrs. Brown's numerous offspring come running into the room. Upon being told that they are her children the Captain nearly faints and does not know how to break the engagement.
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The Younger Brother
Title: The Younger Brother
Character: Father Werner
Released: December 26, 1911
Type: Movie
When the two Werner brothers are called to the front it is not strange that the mother is very solicitous about the younger brother and enjoins the older boy to care for and defend him at all hazards. The English army is transported lo the Soudan and is now encamped in the midst of the activities of the campaign.
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A Reformed Santa Claus
Title: A Reformed Santa Claus
Released: December 22, 1911
Type: Movie
The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until he is leaving his office in the evening. They try to state their case but he entirely ignores them. They attack him. In terror, he flees before them, escaping by entering the home of a poor widow with two children.
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The Life Boat
Title: The Life Boat
Released: November 25, 1911
Type: Movie
Old Captain Bill and his wife have an only son, whom they idolize. He loses all his money at gambling and drinking, and determines to do better in the city. After a short absence he writes his people that he has secured a good position, is saving money, and will be home before long. A year or two later he arrives in town and on his way to his home passes the old saloon he used to patronize. He cannot resist the temptation, and goes in. He falls in with a lot of bad fellows and is robbed. Ashamed to go home, he ships on board a sailing vessel.