If the kittens were white, it wouldn't be so bad, but the cat is black and that makes a difference. So the little black rascal gets under the boss's discarded straw hat, and, being unable to extricate itself, goes on a jaunt, hat and all. The simple town folk had never before seen an auto-hat and seeing this one travel about think it is a "spook." Finally the whole town is up in arms, police and fire departments included; they capture the hat after many hairbreadth escapes and rescue the little black cat.
—Moving Picture World synopsis