Bluff and Gruff, bachelors, live .at a boarding house. Bluff is continually drunk. Gruff to give him a scare tells him that the night before, while drunk, he asked their landlady, who is a shrew, to marry him. Bluff nearly faints. The next day he is again drunk. He makes love to the housekeeper and remembering Gruff's joke, again asks her to marry him, thinking to make good. The housekeeper's brother arrives in the midst of the lovemaking and insists upon immediate marriage. Bluff returns, and Gruff sobered by the seriousness of the situation seeks his advice. Gruff promises to get a fake minister. He induces his friend Luff to play the part of minister. Luff later determines to keep out of it. Meanwhile the group is waiting. The Rev. Dr. Parks stumbles into the house through accident. The brother asks him to perform the ceremony, and Bluff thinking him the fake minister, goes through with it. The next day Gruff meets Luff and finds out that he did not go through with his end of the joke. He informs Bluff that he is really married. Bluff nearly collapses, but really when brother brings in eight children and introduces them to Bluff as his wife's children and consequently his own.