Snake-tail Sharkey is Martha's unwelcome suitor and rival of a very bashful, though preferred, one. Stan Laurel, a ranch hand, coaches this bashful individual, behind Martha's back, in a most ludicrous scene, using a calf as his subject. Laurel and Finlayson effect a most amusing rescue of Martha from a barn, where she has been forcibly taken by Sharkey's men. Most of their wrath is expended on each other instead of the abductors--but in the end right triumphs.