One day when Old Bill was away drinking at the village saloon, an official from the Children’s Aid Society entered Bill’s wretched home with an order from the Court to take his two motherless children to the poor-house. The kiddies escaped from the official and wandered away. Towards night, when they had traveled far, they grew tired and hungry and cried. Three knights of the road heard their sobs and brought them back to their camp. They set out to look for a place for them to sleep. They discovered an old barn, where they placed the tired children. In the morning Farmer Brown and his wife discovered the children and adopted them, A few months later Farmer Brown moved, and Old Bill, unable to find his children, joined the tramps. One night, unknowingly, they entered Farmer Brown’s new home. Pauline heard them and dropped from the bedroom window to the ground right into the arms of one tramp. She recognized him and appealed to him for help. He called the others off. Old Bill escaped before the children saw him and finding them happy, harkened to the call of the road and passed out of their lives forever.