Bill flirts with the girl next door, but Gale, his wife, sends him to work. Bill has been in the habit of buying lottery tickets from a peanut man. At night he hides one in the pocket of an old pair of pants and writes the number on his cuff. The next day he learns that his ticket won fifty thousand dollars, but when he rushes home Gale informs him that she sold the pants to an old clothes man. Bill rushes from the house, meets Lillian and the two dash down the street to find the old clothes man, who has sold the pants to a juvenile. Bill loses Lillian. She flirts with the juvenile and they sit in the park. Bill examines everyone who comes along, in autos. on the street and even a hod-carrier to see if they have the old pants. Finally they discover the juvenile and pulling him behind some bushes, tear the trousers from him.
—Moving Picture World synopsis