The mouse and his girl friend are experiencing the joys of young love when the cat comes up and steals her away in this early silent Aesop's Fables cartoon from Paul Terry.
It's filled with bits and gags from stage melodrama. Terry's studios would knock the form at least once a year, well into the Mighty Mouse era, when MM would rescue Pearl Pureheart from a stovepipe-hatted Oil Can Harry. Even as a child, watching Terrytoons on TV, I would wonder what this was all about. Was there some relationship to the Dudley Doo-Right cartoons, with the top-hatted Snidely Whiplash? Yes, there was, and it was that they both derived from a popular and despised branch of melodrama -- despised because it it concerned people that were poor, thought that money wasn't everything, and couldn't pay the tcket prices at the theaters that played shows about the upper classes.
There's a lot of looping in this one.