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"Ham", an effeminate man-child who skips around chasing butterflies with a net, is forced to go on a camping trip to "make a man out of him".

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.

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.

Lloyd has spent his entire life savings on a new flivver.

Lloyd appears as an alert press photographer.

A newspaper boy who rescues a debutante's runaway dog and who is consequently rewarded by being invited to a society bazaar for charity is the trend of the story.

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

Comedy with Lloyd and his dog, Buddy, who are trying to rid Philyburg of a swarm of flies prior to the city's annual toboggan contest and unveiling of an outdoor fountain. Hamilton and his dog pal, use various means to kill flies in humorous ways. But in chasing a frog, Buddy ends up in the city's reservoir with mud flying everywhere and polluting Philyburg's fresh water supply. As the fountain is turned on at its dedication, the city residents are sprayed with brackish water. Blame is pointed squarely at Buddy and he and Lloyd are evicted from Philyburg. A forthcoming freight train provides the pair with their means of escaping the hostile citizenry. The second half of the film finds Lloyd and Buddy now aboard a freight car with four hobos who've been consuming whiskey. The combination of whiskey, Buddy, and some loose chicks provide the slapstick comedy as our anti-heroes adapt to their railroad car environment.

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.

After participating in the first tournament of the season at a private fishing club, Lloyd smokes his first cigar and becomes so ill he has a wild dream.

Lloyd is unsuccessful in his attempts to catch some fish for his sweetheart and also in his various endeavors to board a ship on which his sweetheart is taking a trip with his rival and her father.

Lloyd, as a milkman, is hired to give lessons in table manners to an ex-sheepherder that has become a newly-rich oil magnate.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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,

Lloyd is just a private in the big army of the unemployed. But he is trying. He will try anything once, and if he isn't thrown out, he'll try it again. He gets a job as an electrician's helper. Now our hero knows just about as much about electricity as the ancient Egyptians knew about the Charleston. But, as said before, he is willing to learn. He is taken out on his first job after an apprenticeship in the store. Luckily nothing more serious happened in the store than the breaking of a gross of bulbs and turning on the "juice" in an electric gridiron just when the boss had his hand on it. But those are little things. At the house where Estelle lives and where he is trying to make a big hit, he makes his first serious blunder. He connects a line carrying high voltage -22,000 of them-into the house circuit and then things begin to happen. First, the electric sweeper creates such a vacuum that things disappear right in front of him. Then the radio swells up and bursts. But when the piano begins to play and all the strings and keys jump out, that is the last straw. The boss knows something is wrong and orders Lloyd to the cellar to inspect the meter. Lloyd tinkers with the meter until he short-circuits it and then there is a big explosion which leaves nothing of the house standing except the doorway. Lloyd then knows he has made a slight error somewhere, so after courteously bidding the owner a pleasant good-day, he bows his way out of the door and is on his way, once more a private in the army of jobless.

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.