Tom Hunter was not cut out to be a farmer, but it took a violent quarrel with his father to oust him from the farm and set him on the road to working with machinery, on which his heart was set. It is Tom's story-but it is also the story of early days of the ""horseless carriage"" and the repercussions in the town of Phelps, New York. Amusing, human, with some thread of nostalgic recreation.