In this very funny picture we see a fellow whose wife sends him out to purchase a dozen of fresh eggs. He goes to the store, and after buying the eggs, which the clerk places carefully in a bag, the heedless fellow starts for home. He does not proceed far when he meets a friend, and in his effort to give him the glad hand he drops the eggs on the stone walk, and it is needless to mention the result. He goes back to the store and the girl sells him another dozen, and he starts home again; but his friend invites him in to have a drink, and after a few rounds both are hardly able to stand on their feet, to still hold on to the eggs, and keeps them concealed under his coat, but his friend staggers against him and smashes every one of them. He goes back to the store again, but this time the girl puts them in his hat, and as he is going along the street he gets into a controversy with the fellow, who hits him over the head and the eggs smash and run down all over him. Bound to bring that dozen of eggs home, however, he makes another trip, and this time takes off his coat, and when the girl puts the eggs in it he starts to drag them along the street. He does not proceed far before running into a policeman, who falls sprawling into the eggs, much to his own disgust and that of the man who has just purchased them. Finally the latter makes another trip, but this time he takes the basket and starts home. When he arrives his weary wife has retired, and he puts the lot of eggs in the bed and climbs in. When the wife awakens in the morning she finds him beside her, and when she calls him and asks for the eggs he throws back the clothes, and there, to his great surprise, is a fine brood of little chickens.