Ernie goes fishing, leaving his mother washing. He goes down to the pier and commences to fish. He falls asleep, is awakened by a bite on the line and pulls up an old vase. He is about to throw it back, when he sees it is corked. Thinking ...See moreErnie goes fishing, leaving his mother washing. He goes down to the pier and commences to fish. He falls asleep, is awakened by a bite on the line and pulls up an old vase. He is about to throw it back, when he sees it is corked. Thinking it might be wine, he opens it, and lo, out raises a great cloud of smoke from which a Genii springs. He salutes the frightened Ernie as his slave and tells him to command him. Ernie wishes for a machine and money. He gets hands full and an automobile. He then wishes for a girl, and a beautiful nymph appears; he wishes for jewels, and gets strings of them; he wishes he were a king and he is in a wonderful car with ermine robes and people bowing and scraping to him. Suddenly an anarchist drops a bomb under his carriage; it blows up and he goes miles in the air, and when he alights his mother is bouncing his head on the pier with her wash-stick and brings him home to the wash tub by his left ear. Written by
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