Pen And Inklings - Bobby And Fido On The Doughnut Trail (1920)

Animation. A Bray Studios production. A black maid is sitting in the kitchen doing some chore or another (difficult to see what.) Bobby Bumps has hidden inside a box and is trying to get something from the larder without the maid seeing him. But she spots him and lashes him with a whip. He runs off and the maid laughs. A tiny mouse tiptoes into the kitchen. The maid spots him too and throws something at him. She carries on with her work. Fido jumps in through the window and gets a lash from the whip. A little black cat comes in and the maid picks it up and pets it. “Kitty, you am de only one ’round heah dat I kin trust.“ reads an intertitle. Bobby, Fido and the mouse discuss what they are going to do. Bobby creeps in whilst the maid and cat are having a snooze. He climbs up into the larder and proceeds to throw doughnuts at Fido who then throws them to the mouse. View from outside the house of the mouse trying to catch the doughnuts as they fly through the window. Suddenly a huge round