A little frontier family enjoys the simple life such an existence induces. The father goes off to a distant woods to work, and while the mother is there with his lunch, good-natured granddad, who is left in charge of the two young children, allows them to go outside the stockade to play. In another section of the woods is a peaceful tribe of Indians, but an unscrupulous trader lets them have in exchange for skins a quantity of whiskey. On this "fire water" they become drunk, and, in search of more, attack the stockade home, killing granddad and driving the youngsters into the cabin in terror. The cornered children upset a keg of powder in the kitchen, put a slow fuse to it, and escape through a back window. The Indians enter the kitchen just as the powder explodes.
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