A woman peddler of vegetables is seen at work along the street. As she stops to wait upon her trade an officer orders her to move on. After having lost a number of customers because of the police so often interfering, she becomes quarrelsome, then being threatened with arrest, she starts in retreat at full speed through the streets. The closing scene of this hilarious comedy shows the heroine and a number of the following police leap headlong into the canal where they exhibit some interesting swimming and emerge to take the troublesome woman to the police court.