Preparing for a fishing trip, a man fills a basket with lunch. While thus occupied, two hungry tramps appear at the window and beg for food, but are driven away. They follow the fisherman to the lake and patiently wait till he lands. He sits beneath a shady tree and unpacks the basket, when the tramps leap upon him and tie him securely to the tree and sit before him and devour his lunch while he groans with choler and hunger. The tramps depart and the angry victim being released starts in pursuit. The hoboes cross a stream over a plank and as the enraged fisherman attempts to follow they pull up the board and he falls in the water.