When chance brings Edward Tudor and Tom Canty together, they decide for fun to switch clothes and places. Exchanging their roles as heir to the throne of England and as a pauper's son, they learn how the other half really lives.
Two stories from the Catskill Mountains. One features a man who sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world. The other is about a superstitious schoolmaster who encounters a headless horseman.