Dazzle and his wife have a quarrel at the breakfast table. While lighting a cigarette, he sets his newspaper on fire and bums his fingers. His wife's aunt visits them and makes matters worse by insisting that he suffers no pain. She is a Christian Scientist. Dazzle resolves on a hunting trip and writes a friend in Baltimore to wire his wife that business will detain him there for three days. He goes hunting and mistakes a man with a fur coat for a bear, shoots him and gets severely beaten. He gets in other trouble and comes home with a black eye. His wife comes up to his room and opens the door. He claims she hit him in the eye with it. Later, however, the fake telegram arrives, and his deception is discovered.
—Moving Picture World synopsis