Our friend, Mr. Inquisitive, gets an idea in his head that he has to find out about everything in sight, so he merrily starts on his way; he first encounters a chicken coop and his curiosity leads him to thoroughly inspect it; his first inspection ends up with the doors of the chicken coops being left open, chickens escaping, and the poor butcher making desperate efforts to catch his strays. He gets his hands on a live wire; he fools with a grain shoot and then wanders up to an innocent water plug, and what that does to him will long be remembered; a coal oil wagon next attracts his attention, and the faucets being something new, he starts them going and brings the vengeance of the driver upon him, who gives our curious friend a good ducking in gasoline. His eyes then spot a city fire alarm, but he has not fooled with this long before he turns in the alarm; we then have an excellent fire run, showing the department coming out of the house down the street, up to the box, where they find our friend still fooling; they then turn the fire extinguishers upon him. Not content with the damage he has already done, his inquisitiveness allows a prisoner to escape from a patrol wagon, where a policeman has put him for safe keeping until the patrol wagon arrives, and when it does Mr. Inquisitive gets hustled into it in place of the prisoner he let free.