Number 4 of the series left Patsy a runaway from home, and asleep in the waiting room of some village unknown to him. It was less than fifteen miles from his home town, but he had never been there. Awakening from his disturbed and cheerless sleep, he arose and sallied forth. Witnessing Storekeeper Grace, uncle of his ideal Tilly, discharging an idle clerk, he applies for the position and secures it. But his bad luck has followed him here, for in taking down the window shutters he smashes a pane in the store door and is "docked" $2. On the forenoon train, Jack, Mary, Tilly, Jane and his evil genius, Sykesy, come to Fairfield to attend a church bazaar to be given that night, all of them unconscious of Patsy's presence in the village. Tilly goes with Jane to visit her uncle, is delighted at finding Patsy, but promises not to reveal his whereabouts, both girls agree to permit him to shift for himself in his own way. Shortly after their departure a customer enters the store for a dose of bicarbonate of soda. Patsy furnishes caustic soda instead, nearly kills the man, and loses his first position in his first hour. The Breach between Sykesy and Tilly brought on by the escaped cows incident broadens when she sees Patsy hard at work, and her coldness further increases his thirst for revenge. Jack, who has two or three times found his jealousy stirred by Mary's evident fondness for Patsy, allows it to be fed by Sykesy's stories, and when he goes out for a walk from the hotel. Mary sees Patsy, grieving over his discharge and asks him to her room, where he tells her his hard luck story, ending by weeping on her shoulder. Jack goes to the room, finds Patsy and his wife in this compromising position and throws him downstairs and out of the hotel. Not knowing what to do next. Patsy secures a position in a barber shop and his first customer is Sykesy. After cutting him two or three times, Sykesy makes a vicious rush at him. The barber returns and discharges him. Meanwhile, Patsy's parents have discovered his whereabouts and after following him in the different places where he has been, find him at the bazaar, where he has been taken by the faithful Jane. While he is having a good time at the bazaar Sykesy tells the minister that he is a bad character, having been in jail and also expelled from college. Leaving the hall with his parents he goes to the store for his suitcase, touches off the burglar alarm, is pursued by the constable and hurries out of town on the trucks of a freight car.
—Moving Picture World synopsis
