He applies for a job at a construction site, but the Irish workers refuse to work with a Black man and chase him away.

He gets the job and all goes well until one of the workmen accidentally sprays him with a hose, washing off the white makeup and revealing the trick.

[3][4] In this film the rest of the cast consisted of white members of the Lubin stock company in Jacksonville, including the young Oliver Hardy, who played the foreman of the construction crew.

(He is visible in the background of a surviving publicity still from the film, which appeared in The Lubin Times, the studio's promotional newsletter.

"[6] The New York Dramatic Mirror noted that "the plot complications of this split reel picture are few, and the methods of achieving laughs far from new or unexpected", but nevertheless concluded that it was "among the welcome comedies".