 After reading in the newspaper that smoking marijuana will make you want to kill your best friend, a group of young boys in the late 1930 s tie up of their friends to a tree and test it out on him. Meanwhile, the boys father, a violent drunk, notices his pipe missing and sets out to find it. When he reaches the kids and recovers his pipe, he demands an explanation. Waiting for his son s rather slow response, Mr. Brow inadvertantly starts smoking the pipe, not knowing what it is stuffed with. Soon his violent nature is mellowed and he walks away.