The story begins in Mr. Nankivel’s country studio where he and little Dot are sojourning during the warm spell and incidentally doing some trick drawing for the edification of a country friend. Unable to secure the services of a model, he makes himself up to represent that eccentric and funny individual known as Uncle Mun and standing before a large mirror he draws his life-sized reflection. While thus engaged, the village minister enters and excitingly describes the capsizing of a canoe on the lake, precipitating a young man and his sweetheart, the minister’s daughter, to the bottom. Uncle Mun now rushes to the rescue with a goodly number of villagers following in his wake. Arriving at the lake-side, he discovers, by the aid of a wonderful spy-glass, the young couple, quite contented at the bottom of the lake. This discovery causes no end of excitement among the villagers, who are at a loss to know how to bring the young couple back among them, until Uncle Mun strikes the brilliant idea of demolishing the dam with the aid of a huge cannon. After firing into the dam we see the water rush out with great force until the lake is drained. The young couple are now seen on the muddy bottom of the lake making their way towards the bank, wading through mud knee-deep. They are soon in the embrace of their friends and are married there and then by the minister, while Uncle Mun is pronounced the hero of the hour and carried home on the shoulders of the villagers.