The scene opens with a stairway and reception hall, a number of footprints tracking across the floor and up the stairway. The maid enters the hall from the apartment and is very much excited at the sight that meets her eyes. Coming down the stairs is the guilty culprit, a tramp, and as he reaches the bottom he is upbraided for his carelessness and told that in future he must wipe his feet. The audacious individual steps forward and, with the apron of the maid, proceeds to wipe his shoes. For this he receives a good trouncing. As a result of further altercation he is pushed over the balustrade of a window ledge and lands in an open carriage on the street below. The coachman dismounts and forcibly ejects the occupant of his vehicle. A fight ensues and the coachman is laid out on the street, where the other wipes his feet on his back, leaving his immaculate tan uniform a sorrowful looking sight. Racing on down the street, he collides with a street sweeper and more trouble is in store for him. Here, however, he is sadly worsted, and running on he endeavors to mount a ‘bus, but his condition is such that he is deterred from his purpose, and as the ‘bus starts off he is precipitated to the gutter. An officer assists him to rise and is patted on the cheek for it, leaving a liberal supply of the grime of the street thereon. The lesson taught him by the maid has its effect and we see him continually scraping his feet. The next appearance of the unfortunate individual is In his efforts to clean his feet on a rolling barrel. This causes not only himself, but the man rolling the barrel, much trouble, and having succeeded in his efforts by wiping his feet on the head and shoulder of the latter party, he bows politely and passes on down the street. Coming to an open air refreshment grounds he knocks for admittance, and when he is taken with another spell, in which he causes considerable excitement, the police hustle him off to the station, where he goes through his antics in so forcible a manner that he barks the shins of many and is finally set up on his head and evicted. He continues his way down the street and, reaching a doorstep, he wipes his feet on the mat, stretches himself on the door step and with his feet raised is frantically pawing the air. The footman opens the door and, taking in the situation, concludes that it is a pity to waste all that energy, and so he procures two large floor-polishing brushes, which he applies to the still pawing feet and, setting the man up, brings him in and applies the action of his feet on the floor. In the last scene we see the faces of the tramp and the footman reflected on the mirror-like floor.