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- After being bunged up by various mishaps, the boys visit a chiropractor's office.
- Percy attempts to secure a wealthy wife through a matrimonial agency. He finally lands an awful-looking one who has a dowry of $50,000 only to find out that the check is phony and she has escaped from an insane asylum.
- Percie and Ferdie answer an ad for barbers, and to be sure of the job they get there in the middle of the night, sleeping on the steps of the shop. They get the jobs, and the balance of the reel is a burlesque of the daily happenings in a barber shop. It's all good stuff, with a succession of new bits of business. The second reel find the boys preparing to attend Miss Millionbucks' ball. They go attired in stolen uniforms, passing as two friends of the young lady's father. Of course the rightful two arrive and show the boys up. At the moment they are about to be shot for impersonating officers, they wake up - still in front of the barber shop, and the jobs taken.
- A poodle takes to the ozone when a mischievous youngster ties him to a group of toy balloons, and Percy and Ferdie are put through their paces when they attempt to win a pretty girl's reward of $100 for rescuing her pup from the air.
- At a hotel where the boys are detectives, the hotel manager has in his possession a pearl necklace that is wanted by the blackhand gang. The necklace is passed on to one of the guests and Percy tries to get it back.
- The boys are broke, as usual, and they come to a studio looking for work, where they always get in the wrong place at the wrong time and break up every scene.
- After saving an Arizona cattleman from an Eastern crook, they go out West, where the cow-punchers have some fun at their expense, and where they later furnish the populace with a surprise by capturing a bandit by hitting him, accidentally with golf balls. Following the receipt of a large reward, they decide to increase their newly acquired bankrolls at a poker game, but are finally obliged to depart for the East, minus clothes.
- Percy and Ferdie try to be automobile salesmen with their usual bad luck, in fact, they successively become doctors, lawyers and detectives.
- The Boys answer an ad for a man and wife to manage a summer hotel.
- Percy and Ferdy Hallroom are up against it, and decide to try their luck as book agents when confronted on all sides by policemen who persistently point to "work or jail" signs. They meet with poor success, and adopt many clever ruses to get into a promising looking office, but all to no avail, and finally beg a "cop" to arrest them. When taken to the jail, they are again confronted with a sign, "no vacancies."
- The boys, applying for free bread, find that the sign is used as a stall by a bootlegger who is dispensing hooch hidden in the loaves. After breaking one, they finally get another, and preparing to drink it they run afoul of a policeman.
- Percy and Ferdie determine to impersonate artists when they observe that the wielders of the brush are making a satisfactory impression upon the ladies. Using some of their apparel, moistened, as coloring matter, they go about a novel process of creating some impressionistic "art,'' and then disguise themselves and proceed to an artists' ball. For awhile they get along famously, but in the end, as usual, their game is spoiled.
- The boys meet a girl whose father is an amateur magician. They attend a séance and stay all night in the house, meeting with all sorts of comedy experiences with spooks, skeletons, etc. Finally they manage to escape only to be captured by a man with a court summons who has waited all night outside to catch them.
- The "Boys" return from a prohibition banquet full of home brew. They get in some frightful predicaments in their hotel, and their troubles eventually lead them onto the roof of the building.
- Percy and Ferdie are official care-takers of children whose mothers are shopping in the department store. A very pretty girl leaves her young baby with the boys and Percy, who is holding the child, suddenly sees his sweetheart outside the store. Not wishing her to find him with a child in his arms he ties the baby to a bunch of balloons. While he is talking to his girl, another child comes along and swaps her doll for the baby, which she puts in her little carriage. Percy, unaware of the change, after a few minutes makes a grab for the baby only to find the balloons sailing up way beyond his reach.
- The Hallroom boys play "Put and Take" until their top is discovered to have all its sides marked "Take All."
- Ferdie and Percy are tramps hoofing it along a dusty road when they see an "Eats" sign. They evolve a scheme to dine at little cost in the tough joint, a western dance hall, but the idea blows up just about the time they are finishing a big meal, with the result that they are made to work out the price of the food.
- The boys go to Mexico to spend a quiet vacation. First they get caught in a train wreck, then they are forced to pose as generals and have exciting times capturing a desperate bandit.
- Perey and Ferdie are dispatched by the owner of the store in which they are employed to hunt down a band that persists in buying various articles with counterfeit bills. The passers of the fake greenbacks are four in number, two men and two women, and the boys disguised as girls attempt to bring them to justice.