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Lloyd gets to Grace's house just in time to hear her father say he is taking her away on a trip to Europe. Graces asks Lloyd to meet her at the pier to say goodbye. But Lloyd catches the wrong bus to the pier and, before he knows it, has signed up with the U. S. Navy for a four year tour-of-duty. From there it is slapstick and sight gags.

The burly proprietor of the Business Man's Gymnasium and Cafe is in a hole. Among all his strong-arm pupils there isn't a soda mixer in the lot and the patronage of the soda fountain is suffering. He hangs out a "man wanted" sign and awaits results. A knock comes on the door and in walks an old lady. With her is her son Lloyd, who applies for the job as soda-jerker. He is accepted, dons his apron and starts mixing the drinks. As a soda-counter man, Lloyd is a total loss with no insurance. He tries to copy the artful style of his fellow workers at the fountain but only succeeds in spilling the drinks all over the place. He has little better luck serving the food orders. A patron orders a stuffed tomato and Lloyd, watching his co-worker tries it himself. He stuffs it with everything behind the counter until it is stretched all out of shape. When the customer sticks it with his fork, it explodes in his face. For this Lloyd is taken from behind the counter and set to work in the gymnasium as an instructor. He tries to teach the class a lesson in Indian.club work but makes a mistake with his orders and the entire class is knocked out. When he tries to show them how to perform on the flying rings, he puts them all into a state of horror by his healthy swings which carry him out of the window high over the city below. The proprietor comes in just in time to see Lloyd do something more foolish than ordinary. He gets sore and tells Lloyd that he is going to give him boxing lessons. On the floor above a lady is taking exercise and jumps up and down. Her weight dislodges one of the globes on the light in the ceiling below, just above the head of the gymnasium proprietor. Just as Lloyd swings, the globe hits the proprietor on the head, knocking him out on his feet. Other globes fall until the burly instructor is completely out, and Lloyd is hailed as the gym champion.

It is Lloyd's first trip on a sleeper and his troubles are augmented when his services are commandeered by a deputy sheriff who is conducting a pair of hard criminals to Sing Sing. They are left in Lloyd's keeping, but promptly take the gun from him and proceed to make their getaway through the made-up sleeper. Complications come thick and fast with many of the travelers confused as to the location of their own berths. Lloyd finally gets possession of the whole car when at an unscheduled stop he captures a "silver fox" (skunk).

Evicted from his boarding house, a man takes his bed and belongings to the poorer section of a city. It rains but he lets down an awning and has shelter. He shares it with a girl who is unsheltered. It becomes cold and everything freezes. He is telling her of his love and feels a punch in the ribs, and wakes up to find a policeman in front of his boarding house telling him to move along.

Although his parents have warned him to stay away from the movies, our hero winds up acting in a costume picture, doubling for comedian Lloyd Hamilton.

Lloyd ends up as a referee at a charity prize-fight, where he takes considerable knocking about by both contestants.

Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his marriage-of-convenience turns into a nightmare.

Lloyd, manager of a lunch wagon at the beach, must contend with his morning commute, difficult customers, and other problems on a day when absolutely everything goes wrong.

Charlie has just been notified that he has secured the job of floorwalker at a large new department store. Fortified with confidence he visits the home of Virginia, daughter of the store owner, and proposes marriage. The father says "No!." It doesn't help Charlie's cause any that he breaks the bottle on the owners head at the store christening. Charlie gets put in charge of the one-hour bargain sale. He lives to regret it.

The troubles of a school teacher in a tough town of gun toting pupils.

A farm hand has a fat girl friend, but he comes to the aid of a sleek heiress and tries to stop her wedding to a seedy aristocrat. The girlfriend gets jealous and complicates his efforts.

A man hired by a penny-pinching wealthy family to fulfill multiple roles for the family causes chaos at each task he is given.

Lloyd is skipping along bound nowhere in particular when a gust of wind blows his hat off and Lloyd stages a big game hunt right in the midst of traffic. He finds the hat just in time to see it destroyed. He goes into a shop to buy another headpiece. The clerk is one of those fellows who is always trying, but he hasn't any more idea of the kind of hat Lloyd wants than he has of the size of the polar ice cap. Lloyd tries on hunting hats, riding hats, slouch hats, derbies and helmets. He tries everything from a hat big enough for a hippo down to one too small for a worm. He finally finds one that looks alright up on a shelf but the clerk pulls the shelf and all over trying to get it. Lloyd picks a hat from the wreckage and pays the bill. No sooner is he out the door than the hat is knocked off and crushed by a street-car. Another hat is purchased and this one is smashed by a truck. A small boy with a Pogo stick accounts for the third. He gets a fourth and decides to have the pleasure of throwing that one away himself. But it comes back to him. Then he shows the trick to a policeman and finally decides to duplicate it with the policeman's cap. But the cap lands in a fire and Lloyd hastily gives him his last hat and walks away. Then Lloyd gets a job in a beauty parlor where elderly maids are made into new chickens and double chins are lifted without the aid of an elevator. Lloyd furnishes a gentleman with an egg shampoo but the eggs have passed their youthfulness, and the customer is indignant. Then he steers a heavyweight gent into a steam room when it is his wife who wants a beauty bath. Lloyd carelessly targets how long the man has been steaming. and when his patron comes out, he has melted down to the size of a midget. It's a great life. but it looks to Lloyd as though he should be getting along to a safer neighborhood. So he quits the beauty shop while he is able to go unharmed.

At Glen's home, his father and mother have just received a wire saying that Glen, their son, was married the night before and he is hurrying home with his bride. Father wires him to hurry home and get $50,000 as a wedding present. Glen receives the wire but he can't remember getting married. He has been on a big party and he recalled very few events of the evening. But to get the $50,000 he has to produce a wife. He asks his roommate, Lloyd, to find one for him. But Lloyd fails to locate a suitable one after an exhaustive search, and returns home disgusted. Glen tells Lloyd he will have to dress as the wife. Lloyd is fitted out in female attire, and they set out for the home of Glen's father. When they arrive, the family immediately takes to the new bride. Estelle, the pretty daughter, makes quite a fuss over the bogus wife. Father, a frisky old gent, also gets smitten with the bride and makes himself a general nuisance. Henry, the son, becomes jealous and tries to take out his spite on the bride. Lloyd is annoyed by these attentions and plays some rough game with the men. Henry decides the bride has a wooden leg. He and father plan to find out if this is true by using needles. But their trick recoils on them, and the fake bride is greatly upset. Everything is finally straightened out satisfactorily when Lloyd takes off his wig and tells Estelle he is a man.

An overly ideal fellow visits a rich family and recalls a pilgrims-vs.-Indians episode, then aids a desperately poor family by seeming to be able to produce money out of thin air.

Lloyd is the wandering boy who left home to set the world on fire, only to find that the world was made of asbestos. Broke and too proud to go home he encounters an affable stranger seeking company for dinner. The latter leaves a lead dollar for Lloyd to pay the bill. He is ejected from the establishment with considerable violence, only to run into more difficulty in a cheap lodging house. A social crook asks Lloyd's assistance in getting into a house under the pretense that he has lost his key. The latter recognizes the house as that of his father but is told that the stranger has just purchased it. The family rushes into the room as the safe is blown and then under these circumstances the prodigal is welcomed home.

A country boy arrives in the city, where taxicab drivers surround him and in their efforts to claim him as a fare leave him in the street practically unclothed. A policeman orders Hamilton to get some clothes on, and, in his efforts to do so, he enters a clothing store, where some of the action takes place, and then a shoe store, where some laughable situations occur. When Hamilton finally is clothed with a suit, the policeman pacified, he is overtaken by a rain storm, and as the new clothing dries it shrinks so that the policeman becomes wrathful again.

Lloyd is a detective in a private firm of crime hounds. Business is very slack until the firm gets a peculiar sort of case. At the house of old Bixby, a millionaire, mysterious messages have been received from a criminal signing himself "Scarface." These predict the disappearance of a valuable diamond necklace, worn by Betty, his daughter. The note names midnight as the hour the necklace will vanish. Bixby communicates with the detective agency, and Lloyd and the manager come out to the house to protect the valuables and capture the crook. They station the occupants of the house at points of vantage and wait for something to happen. They are warned that whoever the flashlight falls on shall die. They do not have to wait long, for doors begin to open and close, and mysterious noises are heard. Lloyd is scared stiff but tries to catch the crook, although the fateful light falls on him. Scarface adopts the disguise of a huge gorilla and terrorizes the entire household. He glides from room to room, through walls, trapdoors and secret exits, completely mystifying the watching detectives or frightening them out of their wits. The chase leads to the cellar. Lloyd is left there alone while boxes and barrels move around the gloomy place. Finally he thinks he has captured the crook-but it is only his partner. The gas light in the cellar is blown out and the gas escapes. Lloyd asks for a match to light the gas and when the match is struck the house blows up, the explosion landing the two detectives and the crook on the branch of a tree. Lloyd slips the handcuffs on the crook just before the bough breaks.

Egbert Eggleston is a correspondence-school private detective. A gang of crooks rob some local homes and Edbert follows them into the big city and on into Chinatown. To keep from being detected he poses as a Buddah statue, and the incense puts him to sleep. And dreams he is a fairy queen,

A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.

A partially lost film. Luke Lancelot decides to enlist in the National Guard, and is in for a big surprise when he discovers he is not in charge.