A party of artists are seen at their club enjoying a game of cards, when a brother artist enters in somewhat elevated condition, upsetting a game and putting the whole room in an uproar. He is so unbearable that the gentlemen have him removed by a footman, who takes him to bed. One of the company suggests that he shall be taught a lesson, and they all hastily don masks and cloaks, and proceed to the misguided fellow’s bedroom. Thinking they are only creatures of his disordered brain, he gets in a troubled state, throwing a water jug and breaking a big mirror. The gentlemen have just time to return to their game of cards when the drunken fellow follows them, but has another fright and upon seeing the various animals has a fit and falls senseless on the floor. Thinking the joke has gone far enough the gentlemen hastily discard their masks and raise their friend, and endeavor to restore him to a reasonable frame of mind. When he is somewhat calmer one of the friends offers him a glass of spirits. The experience has been a lesson to him, and taking the glass, he asserts his manhood and dashes it on the floor.