The film introduces the theme of the partnership between two vagabonds, a young man and a boy, who support and help each other.

[2] Buck Jones and Georgie Stone already anticipates some of the elements that will contribute to the extraordinary success of Charles Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid (1921).

The town bum, Bim (Buck Jones), rescues Bill, (Georgie Stone) thrown off a train by brakeman (Bert Appling).

Bim takes him to the town Doctor (Edwin Tilton) where his wife (Eunice Murdock) discovers Bill may be a runaway with a reward.

Bim sees Mary being carried to the doctor, reads the note and confronts Harvey who gives him the money he has stolen.