Jed Perkins, an old ranchman, has four handsome daughters, of whom he is very proud, but whom he guards with jealous care. The opening scene shows a Western barn dance with the four daughters and their four admirers dancing before the camera to the tune of "The Arkansas Traveler," or some other old time jig tune, played on the squeaky violin of Pete Patterson. The scene closes with Jed and Widow Wiggs dancing the old Virginia Reel. This is the beginning of the ranchman's love affair. After the festivities Perkins gathers up his offspring, the handsome four daughters, and corrals them into the buckboard. Then cracking his whip he starts on the long ride home. Old Perkins has taken a sudden fancy to the Widow Wiggs and decides to propose marriage. A few days later he calls on the widow and finds her chopping wood. The old lady is having a hard time of it since Wiggs died and when Perkins proposes she agrees to marry him on one condition, that he get rid of his four daughters. The old gentleman is very deaf and the widow writes a note explaining the conditions to him. "I will never marry you while you have four single daughters. When they are all married I am yers." Old Jed nods his head and asks the widow how he can get them married off quick. The widow writes again: "You say they have suitors and the dern fools won't propose. Well you just kick the fellers off the place and then they'll elope." The old woman's philosophy listens well and Jed promises that he will do all in his power to bring a quick finish to his four daughters' romances. His opportunity soon comes, because no sooner does he reach the house when he finds Daisy and Will under the old oak tree making violent love. Perkins kicks Will off the premises and threatens him with violent death if he ever again tries to make love to his daughter. Rose, Hyacinth and Violet, the other three daughters, are found with their beaux and old Perkins tries the same tactics with them. The next day, while the old gentleman is taking his after dinner snooze out on the lawn the boys call and the girls, all ready for the trip, come out to meet them. They steal past the old man and hurry away after leaving the following note in the old man's lap: "Dear Dad, As you won't allow our beaux on the place we've all eloped. Daisy, Rose, Hyacinth, Violet." When they are gone the wily old man jumps from his chair and makes haste to communicate to the widow. "Well, Widdy. I've done it," he says, when he jumps out of the buckboard. And true to her promise the Widdy allows him to press a kiss to her lips, vowing to be his until death do them part.