Halen Hardy is an old man with the weight of years and a wealth of beard on his shoulders, while his son, Nowerk, is a healthy, lazy young man who reads cheap love stories and sends his father to work every morning. On this particular morning the tottering old man starts out with his dinner pail and from all appearances he has almost both feet in the grave and is liable to die from lack of breath at any minute. Nowerk sees him off, and soon the father is at a ditch with his pick and shovel. After he has lifted a few grains of earth by much effort, a policeman reminds him that it is Sunday, and that it is against the law to work on the Sabbath. Poor old father gladly welcomes the interruption and unsteadily walks away. His son. in the meantime, is enjoying the society of pretty Miss Winthrope, who dropped a package from her automobile and became infatuated with Nowerk when he picked it up and brought it to her. She takes him for a ride in her car and Nowerk is convulsed with joy. He returns to the veranda of the modest little home and is soon absorbed in the lurid pages of some wildly exciting love story with paper covers. Suddenly, Nowerk is seen walking along the street by Miss Winthrope. She calls him and after a ride to the park in her car, she proposes to him, giving him a diamond ring. He kisses the ring and finds it to be alum. Miss Winthrope hustles him to her home where Nowerk tells her parents they must ask his parents for consent to the marriage. Quickly the trip to Nowerk's home is made and when his mother refuses to allow her son to be a rich woman's poodle-dog, Nowerk plans to elope. He leaves a note and runs off with his fiancée. When the Hardys see the note, they rush out to the stable and get their horses (grotesque figures with horses' heads in which the Hardys array themselves) and go in pursuit of the flying automobile. The chase is the funniest thing in forty states. Into the living room in the Winthrope home, goes the "horses" just in time to prevent the marriage. At this juncture, the poor old father comes into the scene with his dinner pail, with which he strikes Nowerk on the head. Mrs. Hardy comes out as Nowerk wakes up from his dream.