Arthur Mackley's sister writes him. She is sending her little girl out to her ranch. Mackley gives banjo-playing Augustus Carney a doll and orders to pick up the child, who turns out to be all-grown-up Margaret Joslyn. Miss Joslyn captivates the ranch hands, who compete over who will take her to the dance. She announces that the man who can outride her will be the one. Broncho Billy Anderson seems the man who can do the job.... but we'll see.
Anderson may have owned the company, but he was pretty good-natured about making himself the butt of his comedies; over the course of more than a decade and hundreds of shorts, his Broncho Billy character ran the gamut of western types, from villain to hero. When it came to Essannay's comedies, however, Carney's Alkali Ike ruled the roost.
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