Laura is pretty. She is also impatient. At her window, she glanced up and down the street to see if her handsome captain who was to take her for a horse-back ride could be seen. The children, playing in the street, noticed her impatience, and being well aware of the cause of it, they decided to play a good joke on her. The captain finally arrived with the horses, and leaving a boy in charge of them, entered the house. While the captain was busy loving and caressing the young lady within, the boys on the outside were not idle, and Willy, the leader of the mischievous band, dug up a very clever idea. Seeing that the boy left to mind the horses had fallen asleep, Willy proceeded to replace the captain’s horses with two wooden ones. Soon the young lady came out in her riding habit prepared to take a nice ride. Picture her amazement at seeing two dummy horses instead of the thoroughbreds she expected. She turned furiously upon the captain, suspecting him of playing the trick on her, and administered a good beating, driving him from her presence. Willy and the other children had a good laugh on the side.