A family about to spend the holidays away from home is busily engaged in preparing their various luggage and all in the house is upset. The numerous members of the family are hustling their baggage down to a waiting carriage, and the madam is making strenuous efforts to hurry the husband along. As the last trunk is being carried down, the madam preceding it by a few feet, the men lose control and it topples over, knocking the madam, a woman of about 300 pounds, to the pavement, where she struggles until her husband assists her to her feet. Several unsuccessful efforts are made to get her into the cab, but finally she is obliged to mount the box with the driver. The several members of the family crowd into the carriage and, with luggage piled high on top, the carriage wends its way to the depot. Experiencing a heavy jar en route the vehicle breaks under the load and topples over. With difficulty the various offspring are rescued from the interior of the overturned cab and proceed afoot to the depot. The children get in the train all right when the head of the house requests a few minutes’ delay until his wife can get up with the party. Running back he soon brings her on a truck, and after some trouble she is landed in the freight car. The conductor promptly signals and the train is off, leaving the hat of the madam and all the trunks and luggage back on the station platform.