Colonel Custard is awakened from his afternoon sleep by a bugle blowing in his ear. The bugler proves to be his daughter’s lover. The irate Colonel hurls a bucket out of the window at the intruder, but instead the bucket falls on the head of Chief Standing Cow, who returns to his people and invites them to the war path. Meanwhile, the boob bugler has taken refuge from the Colonel’s wrath in a mortar canon. The Indians arrive and a terrific fight begins. Against her father’s wishes Molly sneaks out of the fort to go for help. The Indians see her and pursue, chasing her in a deserted cabin, where, unable to break in the door, they start to burn the cabin down. At the fort the soldiers fire the mortar. The boob is shot into space, and lands on the top of the cabin in which Molly is. He kills the Indians and then the two retreat to the fort. There, too, the bugler puts the Indians to rout.