Issue title is PATHE PICTORIAL LOOKS AT HAPPINESS.
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M/S of a tramp waking up in haystack. M/S of tramp walking down country lane with bundle on back.
The tramp goes through gate of cottage. Various shots of tramp walking up path and knocking at the cottage door. He makes funny faces at baby in play pen in garden. A woman comes to the door and gives tramp a sandwich. C/U of tramp looking very happy. As the tramp walks away he looks wistfully at the mother playing with the baby The tramp walks down path and out through gate.
C/U of tramp's feet walking. He walks into an orchard and sits under fruit tree in blossom. Various shots of tramp eating his sandwich. L/S of church spire seen through branches of trees.
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