- Mishap the school cook falls in love with the new teacher, who is really a crook.
- On a quiet day at the district school the children were peacefully engaged in killing the teacher. Angelface, the son of the president of the board, ran to tell his father, who went to the rescue, and found the children, led by Baby Mert, just about to put the teacher out of his misery. He rescued the man and sent him away. Two light-fingered persons from the city arrive, Lucille and her mother. The old man falls for Lucille at once, and asks her to be the new teacher. She accepts the job. Mishap is the cook in the boarding house kept by the president of the board. His daughter, little Mert, makes all the trouble. She helps in serving the guests, and always champions her father. Two old maids, man crazy, live in the boarding house, and when the children toss Angelface in a blanket and he comes through their ceiling, they try to hold him. He escapes. Lucille has accepted the job of teacher, because the board has offered a reward of $1,000 to anyone taming the school. The president escorts her to the school. Mishap thoroughly approves of her. The old maids watch her with suspicion. Lucille and Mishap go out walking. Mert and Al climb a tree and watch them. Mishap swings Lucille in the swing, and the children untie the ropes from above, and the two fall into the stream. Mert steals their clothes, and Phil has to make a hula-hula skirt out of weeds. The president gives Lucille his coat, which she wears as trousers. Mishap writes a note to her, and puts it in a pancake. By mistake the president gets the pancake and whips Mishap. The president escorts Lucille to school. Mishap steals his son's clothes, leaving the boy in the bushes, and goes to school. Angelface arrives in a barrel, and exposes him. Mishap breaks the barrel, and Angelface takes refuge in a huge map. Lucille's pal breaks into the president's safe, and when the president appears, hangs him by his coat to a nail in the wall. They tie Mishap up in a hammock and throw him into the river. Mert and Angelface fish him out. The president and Mishap then go after the crooks. The pal escapes and runs into the old maid's room. He gets away and climbs to the roof. Mishap follows, and they fight. Mishap jumps into an auto, gets Lucille, and elopes with her. The crowd ropes the auto, and Mishap and Lucille take refuge in the schoolhouse. The crowd then blow it up, and Phil and Lucille shower the crowd with the stolen money.
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