The old game warden in this picture is swearing in a deputy, a bright-faced, athletic young chap, and he is equipped with placards announcing the hunters' game limit. Among the penalties it reads that for killing a doe (young deer) the fine is $200. The old man has a most winsome daughter, and soon we see her going out for a lark in the woods, gun in hand, riding at the side of the new deputy. In the course of their rambles, he tries to talk love to her but she evades the issue, dashes away on her horse, and he just cannot catch up with her. Away, out in a thicket, she sights some game, raises her rifle, and puff! she has brought down a doe! Running to the spot, she is just bending over the animal, when the deputy appears. Now, of course, he loves her dearly, but then isn't he a deputy, and mustn't he do his duty? The ranger's daughter cannot help him out, and when she finally extends her hands to be handcuffed by him, he loses his nerve and lets her go. Here is a puzzle fit for Solomon, for he simply must do his duty as a deputy game warden. But while he stands there thinking the girl's father, his chief, appears on the scene. He discovers the dead doe, and wants to know about it: but the young man takes all the blame on himself, shielding the girl. "You're a fine deputy," says the forest ranger, "and I'm going to make you pay the $200 fine for killing this doe." He strips him of his recently acquired badge of authority, and marches him back to headquarters. Here he is just upbraiding him for his negligence and contempt of the rules, when the daughter catches on to the sacrifice about to be made. And very promptly and sweetly she interferes, telling her father that she shot the doe herself. The old man is now in a predicament. He surely wants to be law abiding, and what can he do but let it cost him a $200 fine on his daughter's account? That's tough, but be gets an idea. Handcuffing them together (and handcuffs easily allow of their holding hands) he marches them off to a pretty spot in the woods and leaves them sitting on a tree stump. While he is gone they fall asleep. The father soon returns with a minister! The couple is gently awakened, and in confusion prepare for their last rites. But no, the father is not going to execute them: he is going to marry them. The shackles are removed, the young man's own ring serves the purpose, the clergyman's hands are raised, and they are made one. Now, explains papa, the law says that a husband is responsible for his wife's debts, and she certainly owes the State $200 for shooting the doe. The new husband promptly pays up, and papa and the clergyman leave him as he is taking back $200 from his little wife, in kisses.