We all remember the boy who cried wolf so often that when the wolf really did come the people did not believe it. Little Billy must never have heard this, or had forgotten it. His sisters Martha and Jane are very fearful of burglars entering their room, and their little brother decides to play a joke on them.
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Zena Keefe as Martha - The Older Daughter
Adele DeGarde as Jane - The Little Daughter
Kenneth Casey as Little Billy - The Son
Charles Eldridge as The Father
George Cooper as The Thief
Mrs. B.F. Clinton as The Mother
United States 18 May 1912
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