It is about midnight. A gathering of sports is watching a cock fight. After two "rounds" the small game cock whips the big "rooster" and the party breaks up. Waddy and Arty, farmhands, are in the neighborhood of the chicken house early the next morning when Nora calls them to mail a letter. In the meantime, Mr. Rogers, owner of the place, observes the many chinks in the chicken house and leaves a notice for the men, which he tacks up on the house. It reads: "Close up all the chinks in the chicken coop." After delving into various lexicons and soliciting opinions from the authorities on the place, Waddy and Arty decide that "close up" means to "shut up" and "chinks" means "Chinamen." Accordingly, they corral a Celestial and lock him up in the chicken house. The unfortunate Chinaman has a battle with the big rooster with the honors about even. Then the farmhands go in search of another chink. They find him and after a chase succeed in shutting him into the chicken house. As they push him in, however, Chinaman No. 1 slips out and there is another chase. The native of the Orient proves to be quite an acrobat, and even a tight wire walker. He is captured in front of the house he has entered by way of an upper window, after walking along a telegraph wire at a dizzy height. After knocking him unconscious in a very indifferent manner, the farmhands carry him back to the chicken coop. While they are busy making the last catch, Nora has hied herself to the henhouse for eggs. The entrapped Chinaman uses her for a target when she opens the door and "spills" a few eggs all over her, Mr. Rogers appears on the scene as the farmhands reappear with the unfortunate Chinaman. Explanations are in order, and when the farmhands learn their stupidity, there is a very ludicrous scene. The Chinamen, having found money dropped by Mr. Rogers, are rewarded by him as the farmhands gaze with open mouths.