Hitchcock comes to a small town, where the chickens and pigs run about the streets as numerous as the people. His purpose is to amuse and entertain the populace by wonderful feats of magic and sleight-of-hand. His plans are all set awry by his sudden infatuation for Flora Zabelle, who plays the hotel waitress and sweetheart of Fatty Arbuckle. Everything was going lovely for Fatty till then. Miss Zabelle was very affectionate and the corpulent one was so fond and foolish that he lavished two years' savings on her adornment, and also put himself in debt for another two years. His ladylove then turned him down cold for the more elegant appearing Hitchcock. When the pair went upstairs to regale themselves with song and organ music, the grief of Fatty Arbuckle was "running over." Little streams of water would every now and then shoot from his eyes and his enormously fat features would work convulsively. The landlady couldn't stand the sight of such appalling grief. She came up armed with a handkerchief determined to soothe the woes of Arbuckle and wipe away his tears. She was nearly drowned by the torrents that came from the grief-stricken Fatty and though persistent had to retreat in as good order as her drenched condition would permit. A very fancy exhibition of "sword-swallowing" was given by Al St. John, as one of the boarders. He gracefully more or less was devouring beans with the aid of a knife. This was the opportunity of the genteel Hitchcock to show his elegant manners. He calls the attention of the boarder to himself and almost swallows the knife literally. This opens the eyes of the rest and they watch him closely and curiously as he then shows the proper way to do the thing. He takes up his fork loaded to the guards with beans and is so intent on watching the effect on those around him that he spills them all over his waistcoat. The hilarity of the boarder is especially mirth-provoking as he has a somewhat clownish outfit and makeup.