Pete, the cook, is thrown out of the cook-house. The boys declare that they will quit, but are pacified when the foreman writes an agency to send them a good female cook. The foreman goes to the station but no cook. In despair he hurries to a nearby ranch, but the ranchman will not part with Mandy, his female cook. He, however, offers Fatty, the assistant cook. The foreman must have a woman. Then Mandy gets the idea of dressing Fatty up in her clothes. After tipping him liberally Fatty agrees, he and the foreman arrive at the ranch and are agreeably received by the boys until Brown decides that he will go in and kiss the cook. He is kicked out, so the foreman, to show how he stands with the cook, starts for the door, his back is turned to the door, so Fatty helps him out with his boot. The boys, however, see his trousers under the female dress and drag him out and send him down the road in baste. In the meanwhile the real cook arrives, and gives the boys such an excellent dinner that they are in fine spirits. As soon as night falls Fatty returns for his clothes. He enters his former room, but hears someone coming, hides under the bed. The cook enters, sees the bed move, calls for help. The boys enter, drag Fatty out, and about to help him from the place more strenuously than before, when the foreman arrives and confesses.
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