Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.

No que é considerado um dos primeiros remake da história do cinema, Georges Méliès dirige seu primeiro curta-metragem, influenciado pela história original dos irmãos Lumière em "Partie d'écarté (1896)".