Kaintuck is a big mountaineer. He loves his sweetheart, Sue, with his whole simple, honest heart. One day an artist comes to sketch in their vicinity. He is immediately struck by Sue's beauty and asks permission to use her as his model. Kaintuck is not pleased with the idea, but the girl consents. When the artist secures board in Sue's home, Kaintuck's jealousy knows no bounds. One day he sees the artist posing Sue, and noticing that the man's arms are about the girl, he decides that she loves him. But the artist thinks only of Sue as a model, his heart being given to Dora, her sister. One day the artist stumbles upon an illicit still in the woods and, inspired by its picturesqueness, he takes out his book and starts to sketch it. Some moonshiners who have been watching him, think that he must be a revenue spy who would be better out of the way, so they lead him out to shoot him. The girls see him, and Sue rushes up to plead for his life. Kaintuck, coming along, saves the artist for Sue's sake. Later he comes to the girl telling her that he will give her up to the man she loves. She is surprised, but when Dora comes along with the artist the situation is explained to everyone's satisfaction.