Summary

Lemuel realizes Goldstein’s wagon is about to trample an older gentleman and a young woman. He runs in front of the horses, grabs their bridles and brings them to a halt. The gentleman is a wealthy bank president and slightly deaf. He thinks Lemuel was charge of the horses from the beginning and failed in his duties. The daughter defends him in a brief romantic moment. Goldstein gives Lemuel ten dollars for intervening and tries to get him to sign insurance papers releasing him of liability. Lemuel refuses to sign but his eye was so badly hurt by a flying hoof that when the man tells him he is an autograph collector and asks for his signature, Lemuel blindly signs the insurance papers. Lemuel digs his fake teeth out of the mud and goes to wash them and his injured eye in...