John Bull has a temper. He's not a large man, but has a temper that would fit a giant. He breaks up housekeeping on the slightest provocation and keeps the family in a state of fear. Bess, his daughter, is engaged to Joe Judd, and Joe writes that he is coming to town to ask her father for her hand. When father is approached on the matter he excels his best previous efforts. That doesn't bother Joe any, and he decides to cure the old man. The next day Joe brings a gang of workmen down to the house while his pa is at the office, and when father arrives so many queer things happen to him that he thinks he is going mad. When Joe again asks for the girl, father, now a beaten man, gives his consent.
