On this day it seems certain that our friend Gontran is unlucky. At a street corner he amuses himself by watching two women who are quarreling over an enormous head of cabbage. One of them carries a child. She abruptly puts if into Gontran's arms, who does not know what to do and holds it. They quarrel until the policeman takes them to the police station and Gontran of course remains with the child on his hands. He does not know what to do with it. He tries to leave it in the entrance of a house but the janitor forces him to take it back. He endeavors to leave it at the foot of a wall but the shouts of a policeman warn him that it is forbidden to deposit anything at that place. Perceiving a group of policemen he wishes to give the child to them but they merely take his name and return to him his embarrassing burden. Gontran discouraged goes home. He is debarred from entering the house by the janitor who tells him "No children in this house." Finally, he reaches his apartment and his wife becomes furious because he has dared to bring home a strange child. Meantime, the infant's mother is released by the police department and begins a search for the little one. She reaches Gontran's home Just in time to add her beating to that of his wife. and poor Gontran, of course, protests in vain. What can he do against two women?