Cats of War!

Released
February 13, 1924

Starring

 * Ernie
 * Farina
 * Jackie
 * Jack
 * Joe
 * Mary
 * Mickey

Story
The gang is play-fighting a war against a rival gang. The boys fight from a trench while Mary acts as the nurse. In the midst of the proceedings, Farina coaxes a kitty-cat through a small tunnel into the trench, and the cat is followed by several more from its litter. It is clear that they all come from the same litter because they all look alike: black with a white stripe down the middle.

Oops, it turns out the animals are really skunks, and the play-fighting agitates them. They spray the gang big time and go back through the tunnel. The gang puts on their gas masks, but they aren't real and the gang becomes ill. The enemy takes advantage of the lull in fighting to charge, but when they get close, they recoil from the stench and surrender to Mary. Mary informs the authorities, who decide that all the boys' clothes and military gadgets must be buried. The town gets a bulldozer to push dirt into the gang's trench to bury their clothes.

However, the boys still stink, so they are forced to go into the woods next to the war zone, make new grass skirts, a process by now in which they are experts, and live in the woods for the next week. They don't mind very much because they have the satisfaction of having won the war with the rival gang. To pass the time they split into teams and play more war games like Cowboys and Indians.