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Trilby parody with several key characters' names altered. Presumed lost.
Zimmerman is a German tailor. Two important men of the city visit Zim and induce him to sign as a volunteer, spurring him on by ordering fancy vests, full dress suits, etc. Zim, in the wild excitement of having received such a big order, signs the official papers without realizing what he is doing. It is only when Zim is home with his family that he realizes the terrible thing he has done.
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
Hinky Dink swaps money for a tin badge from the Skinnem Detective School, and becomes a full-fledged sleuth.
