Heinie and Louie have managed to get possession of a rusty steed which they have dressed up in overalls and are out for a morning canter through the park. But as much as they like the handsome animal, they feel that their crying need for cash must overcome any sentimental reasons for keeping him. Then they sell him to a band of nomads and with the cash received invest in a prosperous shoe shining emporium. They go along fairly well, getting into but a few fights, one of which was started when Louie puts black polish on white shoes, and are on the road to success when their run of good luck breaks. The Prune sisters, well known social lights in the neighborhood, are on a shopping tour when they realize that their shoes are badly in need of a little polish. Now, before they started out Mabel put her roll in the First National Bank of Womankind, her silk lisles. So, while applying the polish, Heinie spies the roll and grows much elated thereat. He tells Louie to keep at work on the shoes while he gets the razor which they keep on hand for just such emergencies. This instrument he plies with neatness and dispatch and relieves Miss Prune of her cash. The victim fails to realize her loss until she has gone some distance, but she goes back to the emporium and demands the arrest of the two captains of the pedal polishing industry. They are then taken into custody and are put at the usual rock-breaking game. But their stay here is rather short and they manage to escape in the most novel manner.