At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.
Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.
A compilation of Christmas-themed short, silent films: A Holiday Pageant At Home (5 mins. 1901) A Winter Straw Ride (7 mins. 1906) A Trap For Santa (16 mins. 1909) A Christmas Accident (15 mins. 1912) The Adventure Of the Wrong Santa Claus: An Adventure of Octavius -- Amateur Detective (14 mins.) Santa Claus vs. Cupid (16 mins. 1915) Santa Claus (29 mins. 1925) A Christmas Carol (10 mins. 1910) The Night Before Christmas (1905)