- Pete accidentally picks up a bundle containing a baby. He leaves it on a spinster's doorstep, but a scandal erupts when she's seen with a baby. The baby is passed around to other doorsteps, creating other scandals, until it's finally reunited with its mother.—Anonymous
- Pete is just a tramp, out honest withal. At any rate, he is honest enough to do a real, sure enough hour's work when Mrs. Smith tells him that she will give him a hand-out and a near-respectable suit of clothes in place of the scarecrow outfit he is wearing if he will saw and split a pile of wood just outside the kitchen door. While Pete is wielding the axe and is on the last lap of his bread-winning stunt, Mrs. Jones, a neighbor, calls with her baby. Mrs. Smith has laid the bundle of clothes, with the lunch wrapped up inside, on a bench beside the door, calling out to the knight of the road to tell him where he will find it when his job is finished. As Mrs. Jones comes to the door she lays the baby down on a bench, and explains to her neighbor that hers is a "fresh-air" youngster, who will be just as well off sleeping outside. A white flannel shirt is on the outside of the bundle of clothes intended for the hobo, and baby and bundle look much alike as they lie outside the door. So that when the son of rest approaches and accidentally picks up Mrs. Jones' offspring, having completed his job, we are not surprised that he should make such a mistake. When the hobo gets in a boxcar, thinking it a good place to change his clothes, he discovers his mistake. Eventually leaving the train, the tramp tries to get rid of the baby by leaving it on the doorstep of a very circumspect maiden lady whom the villagers know to be "keepin' company" for the first time in her life, with a middle-aged local beau. Scandal in the air immediately. The old maid's affinity at last deposits poor baby on the doorstep of the Newlyweds. More trouble immediately follows, and baby is "passed on" elsewhere. In the end, Mrs. Jones and her hubby have their darling restored to them, while the member of the Society of the Great Unwashed gets his reward in a most unexpected manner.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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