The Butchers Nightmare (1917)

Ben the butcher is in love with a girl who does not reciprocate his affections He falls asleep and has a dream in which he threatens to foreclose the mortgage on the home of the girl he loves He also makes a regular crook of the girls brother by having his safe robbed and the money placed in the brothers pocket Ben is aroused from his dream by his partner who is beating him over the head with a slab of meat