When Edgar says no to adopting a baby, wife Florence Lake, mother-in-law Dot Farley and brother-in-law Jack Rice borrow the neighbor's baby and leave him for Edgar to find. Edgar calls the police.... but you never hand anyone over to the cops, and Edgar and the tyke get along great, until the midnight feeding, when it's up to the unprepared Edgar to do everything in this funny and bright short.
Edgar gets to be a lot more charming and child-like in this short than usual in his long-running COMMON MAN series, with the highlight being the sequence in which he tries to get some milk into a baby bottle for the infant, while Miss Lake chatters away charmingly but uselessly and Miss Farley and Mr. Rice are at their usual tenor of obnoxious and unhelpful. Although the core cast would remain through the years -- although the wives would change, and Miss Farley would occasionally be replaced by Billy Franey as Edgar's father-in-law -- it was still experimenting with stories, and this one is delightful.
