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Once Oliver Wendell Holmes in a jocular mood wrote of a wonderful shay that went for a hundred years and then suddenly crumbled up as though it had been in the mill and ground. This Lubin comedy, which doesn't give us the history of the contraption, introduces it and the catastrophe, which we see has an important effect on the outcome of a love story. As for this story, it is made fresh by little things, like the shay for instance; for in outline it isn't new. Mrs. George B. Walters carries off nearly all the honors as the widow. Her daughter has just eloped. She is following the pair in the shay, which is owned by one of her own swains, who at present is more favored than his rival, her daughter's new father-in-law. The shay goes to pieces and this changes the complexion of the whole situation. It's a very fair offering, well photographed and pleasing. - The Moving Picture World, December 28, 1912