Schultz, the tailor, and Finnegan, the shoemaker, whose places of business adjoin, are about as amicable as a fat fishworm and a skinny sparrow. Tragedy in their simple lives is averted until a frivolous fairy invades their respective shops, toys with their dizzy hearts for the moment, then flitting away in dreamland softness, leaving in her wake all the miseries of romance and love. Schultz catches Finnegan spying upon his love making, and Finnegan seeks relief by sitting in a tub of water merely because Schultz placed a hot tailor's goose against an anatomical district that required such treatment. Finnegan reciprocates the kindly feeling by inserting an awl into Schultz's physical being which made the faculty of sitting an unknown quantity. Their attempts at love making with the frolicsome widow is strewn with rock and thorn, the tantalizing kids only too eager to abet in adding pangs to their throbbing hearts. Knowing the fire and flame of jealousy flickers in the breast of the tailor and the shoemaker, the kids suggest the survival of the fittest, and the two love-smitten men don the gloves. With the kids as an enthusiastic audience, Schultz and Finnegan repair to an isolated field and fight a long, bitter, battle. And when exhausted they lie prone, the fascinating widow chances to pass in clinging embrace with a "swell," and Schultz and Finnegan realize their dream is shattered. Disgusted with the tumultuous pranks of Cupid, they shake hands and leave arm in arm, satisfied with being just friendly neighbors.
