Pokes incurs the bitter enmity of Jabbs, his foreman at the lumber yard where he is employed, by winning the affections of Ethel, the employer's daughter. To get revenge, Jabbs orders he unfortunate Pokes to carry one of the heaviest logs he can find from one end of the lumber yard to the other. The terrible weight causes Pokes to bend almost double, and when Ethel and her father arrive and find him in this condition they are forced to use a heavy roller to straighten him out. Later, when Jabbs is discovered in a drinking bout by the Lumber King, he is discharged from his position and Pokes is appointed foreman in his stead. Believing that turnabout is fair play, Pokes now commands Jabbs to carry the same log that he had struggled with a few hours before. Smarting under the humiliation caused by his discharge, Jabbs plots with two of his confederates to kidnap Ethel. After knocking Pokes unconscious, Jabbs and his men throw Ethel into her father's auto and drive off. Recovering from the blow, Pokes seizes a bicycle and starts in pursuit of the fleeing auto. He overtakes the car, and scrambling aboard, hurls the conspirators and Jabbs over the side and down an embankment. Not being familiar with the mechanism of the auto, Pokes harnesses himself to the front and drags the car back to the lumber yard. Desperate at being balked in his nefarious scheme, Jabbs orders his confederates to plant a bomb in the pocket of Pokes' coat. Discovering the smoke issuing from his clothes and not knowing the cause, Pokes dashes after Jabbs and his men, who seek safety in the powder house. Pokes dives into the house after them, and immediately after the bomb exploding, the entire house with Jabbs and his men are blown skyward. Pokes drops safely to the ground after shaking himself from the branches of a tree, where he has lodged, and viewing the ruins of the powder house, hies himself back to Ethel and his well-earned reward.