Kernel Nutt has a run of bad luck and finds himself without the wherewithal to appease his hunger. As he is walking along the street, a black bag falls from an automobile and Nutt secures it. After being mistaken for a doctor, a burglar and a few other things, he finally learns that the bag contains piano tuning instruments. He is sent to the home of a banker whose musically inclined daughter is a thorn in his side, and instructed to tune the piano. When he is finished, the piano is a wreck and the banker’s daughter is highly indignant that she is unable to treat her friends to a concert. The visitors find Nutt, who has been in hiding, and hold court to determine what punishment he shall suffer. After deliberating, the jury returns a verdict that Nutt has done the neighborhood a service of wrecking the instrument of torture. They give him a pocket full of money, with which he proceeds to buy out a restaurant.