Daffy Duck is a stow-away on a ship commanded by a portly, Captain Bligh-like figure, who orders his First Mate, a parrot named Mr. Tristan, to locate any stowaways aboard his ship and to provide a rope to hang the unwanted passengers. Daffy is found and sentenced to hang but offers to entertain the Captain with magic if the Captain will spare his life. The Captain agrees to this proposition, but Daffy is not a magician, and each of his attempted tricks fail, destroying the Captain’s precious watch and exploding the ship’s powder magazine.