Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.
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Edwin August as The School Teacher
Mary Pickford as Nora, the Waif
Charles Hill Mailes as Nora's Father
Bert Hendler as A Street Fakir
Claire McDowell as The Street Fakir's Sweetheart
William A. Carroll as The Street Fakir's Assistant
Robert Harron as Schoolboy
Kate Bruce as
Josephine Crowell as
Ella Hall as Schoolgirl (unconfirmed)
Grace Henderson as A Mother
Mae Marsh as Schoolgirl
Frank Opperman as At the Bee
Alfred Paget as At the Bee
Jack Pickford as Extra
Antrim Short as Student (uncredited)
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