It is Christmas Eve, and a humble prospector has spent his last cent for food. He is heartbroken to think that he cannot even buy anything for his two small children. When his wife finds a letter to Santa Claus asking for a doll and rocking horse, the prospector is desperate.

• The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
• Gilbert M. Anderson
• Lee Willard
• Evelyn Selbie
• Eugenia Clinchard
• True Eames Boardman