When Nellie is on her way to bring lunch to Dan at the blacksmith shop, she accepts a ride from a tophatted fellow with a waxed mustache. After she slaps him, he ties her to the railroad tracks, takes a train from the nearby extensive rail yards and...
Well, you know how this is going to operate, even if you've never seen this movie. Dan, a tall, handsome young fellow who speaks in a Scowhegan accent, will race to her rescue. That's your basic meller plot, and a cartoon is no place to violate those conventions. No, a cartoon is about cramming some jokes into the tired conventions, and this one certainly does that.