- A young female teacher is assigned to an unruly class. After a student revolt, a passing surveyor helps her restore order, and the teacher becomes interested in him. Soon she learns that he has a wife. Dave, an older pupil, offers the teacher solace and it becomes apparent that he is smitten with her.—Anonymous
- A comedy of rustic schooldays. Youth and authority never go hand in hand. To command, the commander must have either age or whiskers, and it is not to be wondered at the scholars of the little country school rebelling. when the little teacher, a pretty girl, smaller and younger than many of her charge, was put in position "to teach the young idea how to shoot." She had a premonition that the task was a disagreeable one, and it required the persuasive urging of the school committee to induce her to take charge. Her very entrance in the school room is met with suppressed derision, and the trouble comes when she requests Dave, the bully of the class, to get up and recite. He refuses point blank, and incites a mutiny during which the entire class bolts. Weeping, she leaves the school house for home, discouraged and embarrassed. On the way she meets Jack Browning, a surveyor, who, upon learning the cause of her grief, volunteers to lend her aid. With her, he goes to the school room, where, meanwhile, the scholars have returned and are raising Cain. At their entrance quiet is induced and Dave is thrashed into submission by the surveyor, and quite willingly does he recite his lesson. Still he is chagrined, and the gibes of his classmates arouse his ire further, so he decides to bow to Nemesis and meet the surveyor after school. The meeting takes place, for the surveyor, anticipating trouble, calls to protect the little teacher on her way home. The determined but misguided Dave receives another bump, and is now docile. Furthermore, he begins to see his teacher in a new light. He becomes deeply smitten with her and gathers wild flowers to adorn her desk, despite the fact that Patsy says he is "mush." The teacher's thoughts, however, are in another direction, for the well-meant protection of the surveyor unwittingly wins her heart. The surveyor is a married man, whose wife now joins him, and he is quite innocent of the suffering ho has caused, never dreaming that the little girl esteemed him more than a friend. But then it is the unsophisticatedness of the teacher that induces this misunderstanding and she soon recovers to notice the fine honest love of her big pupil, Dave. You may imagine Dave's elation upon learning of the surveyor's harmlessness, and he at once sets siege upon the little teacher's heart and is victorious.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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