The two boys, Baseball Bill and PenPoints, are broke and find themselves outside the town and very hungry. They enter the town to look for work, but even the advertisements in the newspapers yield no hope. PenPoints sends Bill on a begging expedition, but is unsuccessful. They notice a sign outside a Swedish restaurant, “Dining Room Girl and Chambermaid Wanted.” Penpoints has an idea. He has seen some women’s clothes on a line and he steals them and dresses Bill as a Swedish maid. He induces Bill to enter Oily Olson’s restaurant and boarding house and ask for the job of waitress. Bill does so, and is accepted by the proprietor, who is much taken with him; PenPoints then enters the restaurant and orders a meal from Bill, and Oily throws him out. Oily makes much of Bill, and shows him to his room. PenPoints tries to discover which is his room. Bill sneaks out of the window and rejoins PenPoints, saying that he cannot stand the disguise any longer. PenPoints induces him to stay a week, so as to get his wages. Bill reenters and sleeps peacefully while Penpoints passes the night on the doorstep. It gets too cold for him, and he enters Bill’s room. In the morning, when Oily calls Bill, Penpoints has to jump out of the window, half-dressed. Oily shows Bill the day’s work, and Bill performs it like a Trojan. Oily is very appreciative, and decides to take his new maid to the ball game. Bill is much elated. Oily has a huge roll of bills. He thinks he has it with him, but in reality he has left it at home. He enters the ball park with Bill, who is shown every courtesy in his woman’s garb. Penpoints can’t get in, and is forced to watch the game through a knot hole in the fence. A cop arrests him for vagrancy, but Penpoints persuades him that there is no hurry about their going to jail, and they share the hole in the fence between them. The home team is playing badly, and Bill can hardly stand it. The pitcher is being hit all over the lot. Oily suddenly discovers that he has lost his money, and rushes out wildly to look for it. Bill can stand it no longer. He makes a break for the bench, and is recognized with joy, and rushed into a uniform. He pitches perfect ball and wins the game. He then dons his gown and returns to Oily, who has found his money. Oily wants to be married at once. Bill says he cannot be married in a calico gown. Oily gives him fifty dollars to get a new dress. Oily goes to get a license. He sees Penpoints being taken to jail. He returns and tells Bill, who pays the fine, which takes all his fifty dollars. They are broke again.