After a night with the boys, Simpson is very, very drunk. Two boys on roller skates find him bugging the lamp-post and they wake him and start him off, and then the fun begins. Simpson skates into everybody and everything in his part of the town: over a truck, into a laundry woman, over a bicyclist and then into a pail of mortar. He finally gets home. His wife takes one look at him and then throws him out of the window. He escapes from the second story window down a plank the carpenters have left, into the arms of a policeman, who arrests him. They are crossing a bridge; Simpson’s skates go up into the air and he and the cop land in the river. The finish is a scream. The part of Simpson in this piece was played by Frank Weston, the great English acrobatic comedian and champion roller skater. There are twenty laughs to the minute in this reel.