Auntie, who is exceedingly homely, is always fond of butting in on the young girls' fellows and trying to steal them away. One day at the seashore, while they are all enjoying themselves, auntie appears in a bathing suit. She is compelled to go in bathing alone, because no one wants to go in with her. While she is in the water she pretends to drown, and Jim, who is sitting with the crowd on the beach, thinking she is really in the precarious situation, starts in the water to rescue her. He carries her out of the water, and, while the crowd is cheering, auntie declares that she will marry her preserver, but Jim swears that she won't. He climbs on top of the boardwalk, and throws shells at her to drive her away and at last succeeds. She decides to lay for another victim, and when she sees Paul walking along the beach she drowns for his benefit. Paul is about to make a heroic rescue, when Jim arrives on the scene and dissuades him. About this time Jack happens along and seeing auntie in the water, is about to rush in and save her, when he is stopped by Jim, Paul and the crowd, and told that this is her scheme for getting a man and that she will want to marry him. He, like the rest, is willing to let her drown. While they are all watching her antics in the water, she decides that no one is coming to rescue her, so she calmly stands up in the water which is only waist deep and walks ashore. The crowd enjoys a good laugh at auntie's expense.
