- Married to a "virago," Davy wishes himself at the bottom of the sea with his namesake McGinty. His wife possesses a comely personality, but, by the great horn spoon, she has a temper like a whirlwind that spouts up and swamps the whole matrimonial ship at the slightest provocation, and poor Davy doesn't have a leg to stand on. Captain Bragg, an old friend of Davy's, calls to see him and finds Annie (Mrs. Jones) very attractive, and remarks that "she has a dem fine figgerhead for any man's craft." Davy replies that's what he said, but he finds her to be an "unmanageable tub that no man can pilot." After an absence of ten years Davy is mourned as dead by his wife, and old Captain Bragg comes cruising around until he takes the widowed Mrs. Jones in tow and splices up with her, and accordingly she becomes Mrs. Bragg. Poor Bragg! He gets all that is coming to him, and he wishes he could join Davy and the mermaids. He is seriously contemplating "flying the coop" when Davy, who has turned up safe and sound unexpectedly, secures a job as a painter to paint the very house in which Bragg and his wife are living. Davy runs afoul of Bragg, and only averts a collision with Mrs. Bragg through the assistance of the "slavey." After they have swapped experiences as mates of the hoodoo Annie, meaning Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Bragg, they lay ropes to cut loose from their spouse and put the expansive sea between them as soon as possible. The ladder! Just the thing to help them out of their dilemma. Down they slide, followed by the half-witted and caricature of a "slavey," who insists upon going with them. They jolly her along a bit, give her the slip and make a dash for the first ship out of port. In the cabin, under the protection of the Captain, an old friend, they are now started on the bounding billows, headed for a foreign shore, talking over their marital relations with Annie; they drink to their deliverance and a happy and safe voyage of the good ship which bears them away.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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