Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: granddaughter Jane Dillon is in love with Harold Speedy Swift, Fact2: Streetcar magnate W.S. Wilton comes to Pop 's home to ask for price to sell car line, Fact3: Speedy On proposes to Jane way along with stray dog, Fact4: series of mishaps prevents him from actually taking passenger, Fact5: goons are beaten off with help of Speedy 's dog but return and steal horse and car
Output (English): Everybody in New York City is in such a hurry that they take Saturdays bath on Friday so they can do Mondays washing on Sunday. But in one slowerpaced, oldfashioned corner of the city, Pop Dillon Burt Woodruff owns and operates the citys last horsedrawn streetcar. His granddaughter Jane Dillon Ann Christy is in love with Harold Speedy Swift Harold Lloyd. Speedy, an avid New York Yankees fan, is working at a soda shop. As well as doing his work, he takes frequent telephone calls during Yankees games and passes the line scores on to the kitchen staff by arranging food items in a display case such as doughnuts for zeroes. But he loses the job after he is ordered to deliver some flowers and lets someone close a car door on them when he gets distracted by a display of baseball scores in a shop window. Streetcar magnate W.S. Wilton Byron Douglas comes to Pops home to ask for his price to sell the car line, but Speedy spots a newspaper article and realizes that this is part of a plan to form a streetcar monopoly in the city. He surreptitiously raises Pops written price from 10,000 to 70,000. Wilton angrily refuses and threatens to force Pop out instead. Speedy is unworried about being unemployed; he is very much used to losing jobs and finding new ones. He and Jane go to Coney Island, where they greatly enjoy themselves despite various mishaps, such as Speedy ruining his suit jacket by leaning against wet paint. On the way home along with a stray dog that decided to follow them, Speedy proposes to Jane, but she will not marry him until her grandfathers affairs are settled. Speedy is hired as a taxi driver, but for some time a series of mishaps prevents him from actually taking a passenger, and he antagonizes a policeman. Then, to his delight, Babe Ruth playing himself hails the cab to get to Yankee Stadium. Although terrified by Speedys driving, he offers Speedy a ticket to the game; but the taxi owner is there, sees Speedy in the seats when he should be working, and fires him. At the stadium, Speedy happens to overhear Wilton on the telephone. Wilton has learned that if Pop fails to operate the horsecar every 24 hours he will lose his right to the line, and orders goons to be sent to disrupt the operation. Speedy rushes home and arranges with smallbusiness owners on the street to organize a defense. The goons are beaten off with the help of Speedys dog, but return and steal the horse and car. Again helped by his dog, Speedy finds out where the car has been taken and manages to steal it back. In a madcap chase scene, he brings it back across the city to Pops tracks, stealing fresh horses, tricking police to avoid being stopped, and replacing a broken wheel with a manhole cover. When Wilton sees the horsecar in place, he agrees to meet Pops price. Speedy says that Pop is a bit deaf and wont hear him until he offers 100,000. Wilton agrees, and Speedy suggests to Jane that they plan a visit to Niagara Falls by horsecar.