He was skinny and awkward, this hero, and he dressed as only a farmer boy without clothes can dress, but she loved him. And then appeared the villain shadowed by two villainous hirelings. And the villain saw pretty Nell and determined to have her, but our hero, single handed, held him until re-enforced by the constable. Arriving home, Nell finds the villain with her mother. The mortgage must be paid, or out they go. Then, realizing that Nell is the daughter, he offers to take her in place of the money due, giving them five minutes to decide. Then comes the hero. They tell him their trouble. Off he rushes and digs for his buried savings. Deeper gets the hole but fast passes the five minutes; they are up and she must pay the price to the villain, but just in time comes the hero with his savings and the villain is foiled. The lovers go forth, but he leaves her for a moment to gather a flower, when again appears the villain, and kidnaps Nell. But our hero follows and just as she is lowered on a rope over the edge of a precipice he grabs the rope and pulls her up, but the villain knocks him senseless. Tying his feet to the rope they drag him to a tree, telling him that the weight that drags on him is the weight of his sweetheart, and when his arms clutching the tree give out. She will drop to the bottom of the precipice. But, as his strength goes, help comes. Feeling the rope slack, our hero stands erect, resting his aching arms, but Nell slips back again and, as he is dragged along the ground, he clutches the long legs of the villain and drags him with him. The villain, however, has the upper hand and proceeds to pummel our hero, who is finally rescued. Torn and dirty, but every inch a hero, he finds joy in his sweetheart’s arms.