The grocer boy loved the boss's daughter. So did the butcher boy, but Eva favored the former. When she showed her preference so plainly, it started a fight, in which the stock of the store suffered severely. The boss checked the fray just as it was becoming exciting, and they went reluctantly back to work. The minister comes in to ask for a subscription, and the boss, giving him one, drops his roll, which the grocer boy finds for him. Some gossips come into the store and stay so long that the boys let loose a mouse from the trap to drive them away. This succeeds splendidly, and the boss is pleased with the grocer boy, so the other decided to get even. When the boss carries out a bag of flour on his back, Tom cuts a hole in it, and it pours out. He then blames Ryck. The boss goes into the refrigerator, and Tom shuts him in, letting him out when he is nearly frozen and saying that Ryck did it. Both fall on Ryck and beat him up, but the girl explains the truth. Tom is sent out to deliver the orders. Ryck fixes the wagon so that on the hill the horse breaks away from it. The wagon runs downhill and is knocked to bits by an auto. Tom returns almost dead. But a small boy has seen Ryck tampering with the wagon and tells on him. So the boss and Tom beat him up again. Ryck and Eva have planned an elopement, and he puts a ladder up to her window for her to climb out on. Pa sees them, but Ryck ties him to the tail of a huge kite, cuts the string, and Pa falls into the field. Ryck and Eva are just getting out of the window, when Pa takes away the ladder. There is a fight, but Ryck succeeds in getting away with the girl. Tom and the boss follow them. Ryck and Eva are in a buggy and the others in a car. They are arrested for speeding. Ryck manages to exchange the buggy for a car, grabs the minister, and makes him marry them, while the disappointed Tom "beans" the boss with a flowerpot.