The Call of the Forest

This film is the old story of the pretty country girl and the handsome tourist. The girl, persuaded to leave her home for the brighter sphere of the town, writes a note bidding her parents good-bye, leaving them heartbroken. The next scene finds the old people looking for their child, but in vain. In time, a feeling for the old surroundings comes back to the daughter, and she again visits the home of her childhood. Here she is recognized by her smaller sister, who quickly warns the parents of the return of her sister. The father, a little beside himself at his daughter's daring to return, after leaving them in such a manner, picks up a gun, intending to shoot her lover, but his hand being somewhat unsteady, his wife receives the shot. She is luckily only wounded. The secret lover makes his escape, the daughter is forgiven, and the scene closes with her parents consenting to her marriage with the sweetheart of her childhood. The whole of this picture is taken midst beautiful natural scenery.