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- A scheming fight manager attempts to collect insurance on his puny fighter by causing an accident. Things don't go according to plan, and the situation escalates into a pie-throwing battle of epic proportions.
- Peacefully slumbering Jerry is disturbed, first by a cop and a nurse girl wheeling a baby, and then by a colored cop with a negro woman, who also has a baby. Incensed, Jerry determines to have his revenge and changes the babies. Jerry then comes upon a sergeant. He conducts him back to the park bench. Upon the appearance of the sergeant the two cops rush off. The negro woman exits with the white baby, while the white nurse leaves with the colored baby. Consternation reigns when the parents discover the substitution. The black cop and the white cop catch a glimpse of Jerry in the background. They soon catch him. A fight ensues. Two white cops rush up and in the general mix-up Jerry makes his getaway. He soon comes upon an aeroplane, gets into the cab and soars upward. Jerry arrives over an island inhabited by cannibals, who have all the modern improvements. The cannibals discover Jerry and notify their chief by telephone. Acting under the instructions of the chief, who arrives upon the scene in his racing car, the cannibals fire and the machine falls to earth. Jerry is carried to a large kettle and forced to witness a cannibal dance. He knocks the chief into the kettle and dashes off. In his mad dash for life Jerry comes to the chief's tent. Darting inside he comes upon a beautiful princess, whom the chief is holding captive. She hides him in a suit of armor. The chief enters the tent. While he is questioning the princess, Jerry prods him with a spear. The chief angrily accuses one of his men. Jerry then prods the other man and causes a general fight. Taking advantage of the confusion, Jerry escapes with the princess. The chief's racer is standing outside the tent. Jerry helps the princess into the car and drives safely away just as the chief and his men run out of the tent.
- Jerry falls in love with an army officer's daughter and although the Colonel protests vigorously, the girl and Jerry steal away and are having a pretty love scene when a policeman's attention is attracted. The cop is also smitten with the beauty of the young woman and he decides to scare Jerry away so that he may make up to the girl. An argument follows and Jerry slips away and gets a long rope, which he throws over the telegraph wires overhead, tying one end to the cop's belt. Jerry then hoists the bluecoat up in the air, fastening the end of the rope to the pole and leaves the guardian of the law suspended between heaven and earth. A squad of brother officers arrive and they promptly release their commander and give chase to Jerry, who seeks refuge in an abandoned fort, and hides himself behind the half broken-down walls. Jerry's ammunition consists of a lot of bricks. When the cops swoop down upon him, firing at random, Jerry responds with volleys of bricks, and one by one the policemen are knocked unconscious. The Colonel passing by sees the fracas and admires Jerry for his bravery and after hostilities cease he congratulates him and as a reward he promises to permit Jerry to marry his pretty daughter. They proceed to the Colonel's home and there Jerry is announced as the prospective son-in-law. Everything runs along smoothly until the Colonel is stricken with the gout and Jerry's clumsiness gets him in bad. A shower of blows upon his head and body dealt out by the Colonel causes Jerry to throw the old man in a rolling chair and dash out into the street with his captive. In and out among a mass of automobiles he rides the Colonel until at last a collision takes place and the enraged soldier is thrown into the gutter. A policeman witnesses the event and prevents Jerry's escape and arrests him. A squad of officers escort the Colonel to his home and Jerry is denounced. All chance of his marrying the pretty daughter is upset and while the girl makes love to the policeman that started the first argument with, Jerry the little fellow who had but a few hours previously established himself so solidly with the Colonel for his brave work against an army of policemen, is made an outcast and locked up in jail.
- Jerry lands a job as a gardener. His work is suddenly interrupted when he spies the pretty daughter of his employer and at once falls in love. Jack, a lieutenant in the army, in the girl's sweetheart, and when he sees Jerry attempt to embrace his sweetheart he is furious and reports the episode to the father. The girl tells Jerry that she will love only a soldier, and Jerry prepares to enlist. At a recruiting station, Jerry is rejected because of his size. After forcing his way past the corporal who is guarding the entrance he enters the recruiting room. Lieutenant Jack suddenly appears and Jerry attempts to seclude himself behind a gun rack, but is detected. He is informed that there is absolutely no chance of his joining the army because he is so small. Jerry argues and sees a free-for-all fight is in progress. During the brawl Jerry grabs a uniform and a gun and rushes out. Attiring himself in full military style, Jerry comes back to the station in time to fall in line with the recruits who are not through a drill. He is soon discovered by Lieutenant Jack and as he is being elected he starts a fight. The police arrive and they mix in with the soldiers and Jerry again escapes. Jerry goes to the home of his late employer and now, a soldier as far as dress is concerned, he presses his affections with the girl. She is different in her attitude toward him and believes him real gallant and brave. The father also has changed his attitude toward Jerry. Jerry's hoax is not successful for soon the lieutenant appears. He recognizes Jerry and attacks him. While they are fighting the father calls the police and Jerry, in possession of a sword, pretends that he is the superior officer. He orders the police to arrest the lieutenant and they obey. They march Jack away and Jerry goes behind, all puffed up and promising his sweetheart that he will return as soon as he has placed the lieutenant in the guardhouse. The girl has fond daydreams of her new hero as Jerry passes from view, she waiting for his return.
- Jerry resents the intrusion of a policeman upon his peaceful dreams, while curled up on a park bench, by putting the stout guardian into sweet repose with the use of a large club. While making a hasty exit out of the sight of the recovering "cop" Jerry is attracted by a loving couple on another park bench, and he at once finds it impossible to make his eyes behave. They attract the attention of Ginger, although she is being courted by Hank, and while looking over the shoulder of the elongated one she winks repeatedly at Jerry, giving him lots of courage. Hank gets an inkling of the flirtation and when he sees Jerry standing over his lady love he lets fly with both hands, but Jerry is too quick and he ducks, the blow falls on Ginger. Hank is overcome at the turn of events and attempts to explain, and as he bends over, Jerry lays him low with an iron pipe and then escapes. Hank, recovering, wants to make good, so he goes off to buy some soda pop. While he is gone Jerry hurries to the side of Ginger and while the two are having a delightful love scene Hank returns. He is about to wipe up the park with Jerry when the little fellow grabs a bottle of pop and again sends Hank sprawling to the ground and a moment later Jerry and Ginger run off together. Jerry is progressing very nicely with his love making when two other policemen hear Hank's tale and the trio start a hunt for the wooer. They soon discover Jerry and Ginger wrapped in each others arms, but while they debate as to how an approach should be made, Jerry gets wise and is off. Hank is determined, and his lanky legs soon overtake Jerry, but the quickness of the latter carries him into a big elevator building, and before Hank can lay hands on him he takes command of an elevator and shoots it upward. Hank goes in another elevator and gives chase and as a last resort Jerry makes for the roof. As he hides behind a chimney Hank spies him and the two struggle all over the roof, finally reaching the edge, Hank's superior strength gets the better of Jerry and the little fellow is sent flying through space to crash on the ground fourteen stories below. A crowd gathers, expecting to see a grease spot, but they are all knocked silly when Jerry jumps to his feet, brushes a little dirt from his clothing and starts off on a run. Hank, thinking that he has killed Jerry goes in an opposite direction, only to come face to face with his tormentor a few minutes later. Another chase follows and Jerry hides in a barrel, believing that Hank has not detected him. Hank creeps up, however, slaps a cover over the barrel and with the assistance of a carpenter nails it down. Jerry is then sent off on a perilous journey, coming to an end when the barrel crashes into a building. But again he is unhurt, and, seeing Hank in the distance, he runs to a dressmaking establishment and there he gets inside of a suit model and a handy woman's hat helps to disguise him. Hank strolls by and is attracted by the model. He flirts and then puts his arm about it. As he looks sheepishly towards the ground he sees Jerry's feet sticking out from under the dress and he becomes furious and starts to choke his victim. Two policemen see the act and, believing that Hank is killing a woman, they hurry on and beat him furiously over the head with their clubs. While the uproar is going on Jerry ducks out from under the female garb, throws the model into tin arms of a copper, who thinks it is a fainting woman. All hands get into a terrible mix-up as Jerry hurries away to the park. At last alone, he gets behind a bush and laughs long.
- Tired of city life, Jerry seeks work on a ranch. Dressed in real cowboy fashion he arrives at the railroad station in a small western town. Louise, an heiress, and her maid, Elsie, are expected by the village folks, Louise being the owner of the big E.Z. ranch. Things have gone wrong at the ranch and at the advice of her attorney, Louise has disguised herself as a maid and Elsie substitutes as the heiress. Jerry is bewildered when he sees all the ranch hands waiting for the arrival of the owner and he is a little timid in his search for work. The train brings the expected heiress, who, dressed as a maid, does not receive the attention that the maid dressed as the heiress receives. Jerry, however, assists the "maid" with her luggage while the townspeople make much over Elsie. As the two women are seated in a small automobile there is an explosion and the machine starts off without a driver. Jerry leaps to his mule and gives chase and overtakes the automobile. He is the hero of the excitement, but his work is successful only because all the gasoline has been consumed. At the ranch, Louise finds that things have been neglected by the men, the foreman being unable to handle them. There is no harmony and a number of fights are started because of the antics of Jerry. No one realizes, however, that Jerry is the cause of many of the clashes during the visit of the owner. Elsie, believed to be the heiress, is made much of. Louise is placed in the background by everyone excepting Jerry. The ranch hands dislike Jerry and one day while he is being cuffed about, Louise arrives. She decides to reveal her identity and does so as she commands that the men stop annoying Jerry. Everyone is surprised to learn that Louise is the heiress and Elsie the real maid. Louise then assumes control of things and discharges all of the employees, excepting the foreman. She then asks Jerry to be her partner and he consents. Elsie, now in her original capacity of maid, is made much over by the foreman. Elsie and her new sweetheart find a quiet little spot in the ranch house, while Louise and Jerry find refuge under a big tree where they have a love scene.
- Whenever anything happens, the police first blame Jerry on general principles and then proceed to find the real culprit. An incident of this kind results in a merry mix-up between Jerry and his enemies, the police, and, when the battle is over, they lead him to the police station. To the great humiliation of the officers, the Captain of Police finds Jerry in the possession of nearly all of the officers' clubs and about a dozen brick-bats. They proceed to put Jerry through the third degree and generally abuse him when they are interrupted by the arrival of an interested old couple who witnessed the altercation between Jerry and the officers. The old folks argue that there is something wrong with Jerry's head and induce the Captain to permit them to take Jerry and have his head examined by a phrenologist. After considerable difficulty, the old couple manage to land Jerry at the phrenologist's door where Jerry, unobserved, manages to create a small riot between the old man and the head examiner, resulting in the arrival of the police and the arrest of the old gentleman. Jerry is escorted into the office where the phrenologist, who in reality is a much wanted military spy, proceeds to hypnotize him, puts his clothes on Jerry and makes him up to resemble the spy, places incriminating papers in Jerry's pockets and makes his escape. The soldiers arrive and arrest Jerry, who is taken before the General at army headquarters. There they search and cross-examine Jerry and find it necessary to handle him in no gentle manner. With the aid of a few handy bottles and some extra fresh pies Jerry subdues his tormentors and makes his departure, only to be intercepted at the gates of the army post by other soldiers, whom he bowls over and makes his escape. Running across the aviation field, Jerry sees an aeroplane which he appropriates and sails away to safety in. In making a landing he accidentally comes upon the head examiner whom he holds up at the point of a gun and marches to the police station. Confident that his capture of the spy will result in his own pardon, Jerry boldly enters the stronghold of his enemies, only to be pounced upon and thrown into a cell.
- Jerry strikes up a flirtation with Miss Smith who permits him to act as her escort. On a walk they meet Duke Earlton, her fiancé, for whose company the girl dismisses Jerry. Stunned for the moment by her action, Jerry watches the chatting couple continue onward, then, recovering, he starts on a run after them. He attempts to induce the girl to desert her newfound escort, but that individual, becoming annoyed, pushes Jerry aside. Picking up two boulders Jerry starts after his enemy but before he can use them in the desired way, the Duke takes the initiative and Jerry is sent sprawling into the street. As he lays an automobile rushes over him. The occupant. Count O'Zowie, turns back. Finding Jerry unharmed he congratulates him on his fortunate escape, and gives him his card with an invitation to call. The card gives Jerry a happy idea. Armed with it he calls at the home of Dr. Gray, Miss Smith's uncle, whom she is visiting. Believing Miss Smith to be the doctor's daughter, he sends in his card for her. When he is ushered into the reception room he is dumbfounded at the sight before him. Instead of Miss Smith, he sees a girl weighing only about two hundred pounds and whose form of diversion is boxing. Without much ado she captures Jerry, takes him to the gym, and in a few seconds knocks him out. Jerry calls the Duke, who has just entered the house with Miss. Smith, and induces him to put on the gloves with the athletic girl, after putting horseshoes in the girl's gloves. Of course, one blow and the Duke is in dreamland. He then chloroforms Miss Gray and places her on a chair beside the Duke with her arms about the unconscious man's shoulders. He then calls Miss Smith to the gym. Seeing the Duke in such a compromising position with Miss Gray, Miss Smith breaks her engagement and at Jerry's insistent urging consents to elope. Meanwhile, the Duke has revived and. suspicious at Miss Smith's and Jerry's absence from the house, 'phones the police, who start in pursuit of the eloping couple. As they cross a shallow stream Jerry falls from the horse and the police, immediately in the rear, have no trouble in picking him up. Miss Smith continues on her ride, but Jerry is escorted away by the police.
- Jerry again has the police on his trail and wanders through the park. Here he sees a mounted policeman strolling along with his arm around a girl's waist and leading his horse. Jerry cuts the bridle reins, mounts and rides off, the policeman being too engrossed to discover his loss until some time later. Shorty and Madge are lovers. Shorty leaves a note for Madge in their private "post office" in a big tree at the side of the road, asking her to meet him that evening. She writes a note consenting. This little exchange of notes is witnessed by Lewis Hayden, Madge's father's favorite for his daughter's hand. He purloins the note left by Shorty and takes it to Madge's father. Jerry also has seen the entire proceeding and, impelled by curiosity, ascertains the cause for the state of ecstasy and surprise of the young people just as Shorty comes up. A wordy battle between Shorty and Jerry ensues, but is smoothed over when Jerry explains Hayden's visit, and the two become friends. At home Hayden shows Father the note, who calls Madge and insists that she marry his choice. Madge creates a rumpus. Father and Hayden decide to punish Shorty, whom they have never seen, but for whom they mistake Jerry. They gloat over the surmised fact that he is only "four feet tall and easily licked." Madge informs Shorty of her father's plans and also of his mistaking Jerry for Shorty. The friends decide that they will go forward, anyway, and meet the foe. At the trysting place Shorty dons Jerry's clothes and, after sending Jerry up into the tree, Shorty kneels alongside to appear the height of Jerry. Father and Hayden arrive with clubs to pounce on him, but Shorty is too quick. He rises like a shot to his full six feet two, grabs each by the hair, batters their heads together and sends them off. The next morning Father is up early, and so are Shorty and Jerry. In order to insure against Madge's escape Father nails strips of lumber across her window. Resourceful Jerry suggests to Shorty that he (Jerry) dress to represent Madge, tell Father that daughter is to be married, and while Jerry rides away dressed as Madge Father will follow, and Shorty and Madge can have the marriage ceremony performed during his absence. The scheme is carried out as planned. After a hard chase Father catches up with Jerry, whom he supposes to be Madge, takes her home, only to find Madge there with Shorty, just married. A disentanglement of all difficulties, wherein the policeman gets back his horse, Madge is forgiven and Shorty accepted as a son-in-law closes the picture.
- Here we find Jerry where he will do no harm "behind the bars." But Jerry manages to effect his getaway by pulling apart the bars. As he climbs out of the cell window he is seen by one of the guards who tries to follow him but is caught between the bars. Jerry drops over the prison wall onto the heads of two policemen, who are so dumbfounded that they run in opposite directions. Near the prison Jerry discovers an automobile, jumps in and is off in the nick of time, as half a dozen guards and a number of policemen are just about to grab him. They all fall in a heap as Jerry speeds on. A desperate bandit stands at the roadside, garbed as a minister. He carries half a dozen guns and holds up everyone, making his victims come to him to give up their valuables. He is described as being short in stature but in reality is more than six feet tall and kneels at all times so as to mislead those who attempt to give a description of him. As luck would have it Jerry happens to get on the road which has been picked out by the bandit for that day's work. His ride is suddenly interrupted by friend minister, who orders Jerry to alight and change clothes with him while he speeds off in Jerry's car. Jerry thinks this is a good scheme as they will never suspect him of being a fugitive from the prison while garbed as a minister, so he walks off to town. In the meantime the bandit rides off a few feet when there is a terrible explosion, which attracts the attention of a posse of guards, police, etc., who give chase after the car. Jerry arrives in town and enters a food shop, but is surprised to find they all flee at sight of him and leave him alone. He is mystified by such actions, but it doesn't worry him much for he sits down and has a good meal. While Jerry is eating the bandit arrives in the car and, seeing Jerry in the restaurant, decides to get his shooting irons back. He grabs the guns and starts to shoot up Jerry but the latter rushers to the street only to be confronted by the police. He runs back to the restaurant and hides; guards, etc., enter and are greeted by a volley of shots from the bandit's gun. Jerry runs to make his getaway in the automobile, followed by the bandit, who sits beside him and they speed off. Jerry loses control of the machine at the edge of a cliff, they are hurled off into space and land at the bottom with about a ton of wreckage on top of them. The posse rushes down to learn the worst, but find that they are unhurt. They grab Jerry, believing him to be the bandit, but he tells of the exchange of clothing and the bandit is nabbed. Jerry is about to rejoice when the guard whom he had pelted with stones recognizes him so he, too, is arrested and the entire party start back to the prison.
- Tired of his irksome jail sentence Jerry contrives a clever scheme by which he eludes two guards and escapes after an interesting chase. At last in safety he sits down for a rest. Two Indians approach and make him captive. He is brought before Chief Pain-in-the-Face who decrees that he shall die. The Chief's daughter, Moonlight Princess, falls in love with Jerry at first sight and successfully pleads with her father for his life. She is told to have him painted and dressed like an Indian and she may marry him. Thus arrayed and bound Jerry is about to give up all hope when a professor of natural history, endeavoring to buy an Indian to accompany him on a lecture tour, arrives and negotiates the purchase of Jerry. The prisoner is overjoyed at the prospect of release, but not so with the Princess, who is taken struggling and protesting to her tent. Jerry is taken to the professor's home that night and left alone in the library while the professor goes on an errand. The other occupants of the house, the professor's son, his daughters and his housekeeper, are asleep. Jerry makes himself thoroughly at home and is enjoying himself immensely when the Princess, who has followed, bursts in upon him. A racket follows, the household is awakened, and there is an exodus from the rooms of the members of the family. The Princess chases Jerry from room to room, startling the professor's bewildered daughters and housekeeper into hysterics. The son, however, more collected, calls for the police, who arrive at the same time as the professor. Jerry is immediately recognized by the officers, exposed as an impostor, and again taken into custody, much to his delight after his experience with the Princess.
- Jerry decides he will discontinue the companionship of Slim and shoulder life's burden single handed. While the latter slumbers Jerry packs the combined wardrobe of the "firm" and attempts to make his exit by way of the window by means of a rope. But Slim is awakened by the noise. For a moment Slim watches the progress of Jerry and then decides to call him back. Halfway down the rope, Jerry is interrupted by his slender companion, who demands that Jerry return. The latter, showing no such desire. Slim cuts the rope and sends Jerry sprawling on the ground. Jerry, however, runs off. But Slim is soon after him. Jerry's flight is interrupted by a policeman, who becomes suspicious of him. Jerry is arguing with the cop when Slim arrives and soon the policeman is the target for a volley of blows directed at Jerry by Slim, Jerry neatly ducking each blow to finally run off, leaving the other two in a brawl. Jerry secludes himself in a nearby barn. He has scarcely hid himself when Zowie and Blouie, two "black hand" artists, enter the barn, one carrying a huge bundle of money and the other a suitcase. They spread the bills about and count it, while Jerry looks on. As Blouie and Zowie are about to place the money in the suitcase, Slim opens the door, sees what is going on and gets in unnoticed. The "money men" make their exit, thereby causing Jerry and Slim to come face to face once more. Another clash between the two is the outcome of the meeting, Slim coming out on top to hurry after the men with the money. Jerry soon falls in line behind the trio, this being unknown to Slim, Zowie or Blouie. The journey brings the four to a wood, where Jerry hides from view, as does Slim, while the two plant their suitcase of money. A moment later a powerful explosive is placed in the suitcase and the money removed by the mysterious Bill and Jim, dealers in explosives, unseen by Jerry or Slim, who are backing up to get the money. Jerry arrives first, replaces the suitcase containing the explosive with his own and hurries off, believing that he has made an easy fortune. Slim at last detects the suitcase that Jerry left, and, thinking it is the one left by Zowie and Blouie, is delighted as he walks off with it. Slim sights a restaurant and decides to treat himself to a royal dinner. Satisfying his desire, Slim opens the suitcase to pay for the food and is knocked speechless when, instead of money, he finds an old shirt and collar and two bricks. He is thrown out. Jerry arrives upon the scene in time to see Slim have the finishing touches administered. He is about to enter the food shop when Slim spies him and, believing Jerry has the suitcase with the money, he starts after him. The two race with Jerry leading easily until they finally come to the water's edge. Seeing no escape other than the water or on board of a liner which is about to depart, Jerry rushes up the gang-plank, bowls over the members of the crew who attempt to stop him and hides. Slim is a moment too late to make the ship, so he hails a couple of men in a small boat, tells the story of the suitcase of money and induces them to follow the liner. Jerry, seeing them coming, makes fruitless efforts to open the suitcase, and as Slim and the others come up a rope ladder on the side of the ship, Jerry plunges overboard and reaches the shore in safety, just as Slim and the others open the suitcase, causing an explosion which sends the liner to the bottom.
- Jerry's courtship of a little heiress is again interrupted by a French Count. Unable to gain his point because of the presence of the Count, Jerry decides to dispose of the intruder and he is successful with the aid of a brick. Jerry then escorts his lady love to her home, while the foreigner is arrested by two policemen who believe he is demented. Arriving at the girl's house Jerry is at once ousted by the father, and as he is attempting to escape the old man's wrath, he upsets a butler who is carrying a number of invitations to a masque ball to the mail box. The invitations are strewn all over the sidewalk and in picking them up for the butler Jerry places three of them in his pocket. The night of the ball Jerry ventures near the house. He is watching the festivities from outside, when he is attracted by two burglars, who are attempting to gain an entrance to the place by jimmying a window. A second glance reveals the fact that the crooks are old friends of Jerry's. Jerry calls to them and they recognize him. He tells them that he has invitations to the ball and that it will be an easy way for them to gain an entrance to the place. He offers them his assistance if they will furnish him with a mask. They agree. The trio go to the entrance of the house and Jerry presents the invitations and the butlers admit them. Announced as three distinguished guests, they attract considerable attention. Jerry soon discovers his sweetheart, and while he is dancing with her the Count learns who the diminutive one behind the mustache is. He rips Jerry's mask from his face and likewise the mustache and an uproar follows. While Jerry and the Count are racing through the house, the crooks discover the safe and decide to blow it. Jerry runs to the balcony on the second floor and the Count follows him. The two struggle and Jerry throws the Count over the railing and down into a big fountain in the center of the ballroom. The police arrive, simultaneously with the exploding of the safe and as they give chase after the two crooks they come across Jerry. He throws one of them over the railing and into the fountain and when he rushes down stairs he is confronted by others. The crooks are captured and taken away, and as Jerry is about to be arrested the girl pleads for him. As the policeman considers and attempts a flirtation with the girl, Jerry pushes him into the fountain and makes his escape.
- Jerry, dozing on a park bench, dreams that he is in the act of blowing up with giant firecrackers and dynamite an octet of policemen, when he is awakened by the explosion of a firecracker placed under the bench by two mischievous boys. Sergeant Kelly and Officer Hadley, attracted to the scene by the noise, arrest Jerry and start him off to the station. On the way they meet pretty Betty, the friend of the force. The attention of the officers distracted, Jerry escapes. Sergeant Kelly calls on Betty, who as kitchen mistress prepares an inviting repast. In the midst of her preparations Lieut. Kirby, another admirer, calls. The Sergeant secretes himself in a refrigerator and when Betty's mistress enters, Lieut. Kelly also hastily seeks shelter, but in the pantry which contains the water heater. Mrs. Goodrich, taking note of the spread, instructs her husband to reprove Betty, who bursts into tears. Sympathetically, Goodrich takes Betty into his arms just as his wife enters A tiff follows, ending with Betty being sent to her room, while husband and wife adjourn to another room to continue their argument. Jerry, fleeing from an officer, enters the kitchen. He discovers Kelly in the refrigerator, now frozen, and the Lieutenant, now afire. The butler enters, sizes up the situation, then hastily exits to inform his master, while Jerry, fearful of being caught, rushes away into Betty's room where Mrs. Goodrich finds him with the bewildered girl. Betty then faints. Jerry carries her to the most convenient room, which happens to be Mr. Goodrich's, and has had just time enough to deposit his burden and to hide when Mr. Goodrich enters, followed by his wife. Betty's presence again causes trouble, but this time not for long, for Jerry is captured and taken off to jail, while Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich patch up their differences.
- Jerry, ever alert to pretty girls, comes in contact with the maid of a wealthy family. She has been to market and Jerry relieves her of her burden. He is about to accept her invitation to dine with her when the policeman on the beat, who is also infatuated with the maid, appears. The officer hurls Jerry to the ground and then follows the maid to the kitchen. Jerry determined to gain an entrance to the place, starts for the door again, when Hank, the janitor, appears and another fight starts. Jerry is pounded again and Hank goes inside. A fight starts between the janitor and the bluecoat, the latter using his club freely and throwing the janitor downstairs to the cellar. Jerry is lost as to what to do when he spies the police captain. He hurries to him and tells his tale of woe and the Captain decides to go after his subordinate. Jerry follows in and while the two officers are fighting Jerry opens the door leading to the cellar and throws them both down to join the janitor. Jerry is progressing nicely when the master of the house comes in. He is also smitten with the girl, but before he sees Jerry the diminutive one hides under the table and is further shielded from view by the maid's apron. The master is having a love scene with the girl when his wife appears and she loses no time, crashing a bottle over the unfaithful one's head. The maid faints and as the wife rushes out Jerry goes to the girl's assistance. He picks her up just as the three in the cellar appear. Jerry runs to the hall and there he is confronted by the husband. Jerry throws the girl into the arms of the master and runs upstairs just as the wife appears. Seeing her husband with the maid in his arms the angry wife smashes a big vase over her husband's head, dropping him with the maid in his arms. The police and janitor appear on the scene and there is a general mixup. All decide to get Jerry and a chase leads to the top floor. Jerry climbs out of the window and aided by the drain pipe reaches the ground while the police and janitor climb down behind him. He is caught at the bottom by the husband, who is in waiting and held for the police, then to be severely clubbed and taken away to jail, leaving Hank the janitor in possession of the troublesome maid.
- Mr. Goodrich, Mrs. Goodrich and their daughter, Jessie, arrive in a small western town just as a bad man is shooting up the place. Dead Shot Dick enters and protects the easterners. Dead Shot Dick is a gunman at loggerheads with the law's forces. Sheriff Gunning posts a notice offering a reward of $1,000 for his capture. Dick sees the notice and compels the sheriff to eat it. As monarch over all he surveys, Dick has no hesitancy in interrupting the spooning match of Jessie and Jerry, the latter having made quite a hit with the pretty easterner. Jerry is peeved and sets out for revenge. The Goodriches leave for home and invite Dick to visit them. Dick accepts and arrives in the east a few days later with Jerry on his trail. Both pay marked attention to Jessie. Dick orders Jerry out of the way. Jerry refuses and in the tilt that follows the lordly one is vanquished. The doctor is called to attend Dick. In the midst of the treatment Dick revives, grabs his brace of six shooters, and shoots up the room, Jerry, coming in for an extraordinary share of attention in commemoration of past performances. Dick compels him to swap clothes, then continues on his rampage. At the opportune moment Jerry, who has followed, applies a club to the head of Dick, who falls into dreamland. In Dick's pocket Jerry finds a copy of the notice offering the $1,000 reward for Dick's capture. With visions of the big reward, Jerry ties a rope to the ankles of the gunman, drags him to jail and turns him over to the authorities, who pay the $1,000. The sight of the $1,000 leaving his hands is too much for the judge, however, and he arrests Jerry on the charge of carrying concealed weapons, convicts him, deprives him of his hard-earned reward and then puts him in a cell with Dick.
- Jerry got himself in bad with the authorities, and with three cronies landed in jail. To explain his absence he writes his sweetheart that he is holding down a government position. Disliking the job of cracking stones to which he was assigned, Jerry plans his escape. His opportunity comes when the attention of the guard is distracted. Picking up a stone he whirls it at the guard who falls with a thud into unconsciousness. Changing clothes with the senseless man he goes forward and meets his cronies, whom he liberates. Upon returning to his senses the guard raises a cry and pursuit is immediately started after the escaped convicts. Jerry spies on the wayside an automobile belonging to a motion picture company out on a "location" and bidding his comrades enter he takes the wheel and makes off at full speed. In the car the four discover four elaborate sets of military costumes intended for use in the picture people's scene. Donning these Jerry with his friends starts for his sweetheart's home, wiring ahead the news of their coming. The receipt of Jerry's message causes great rejoicing and plans are immediately made for an elaborate reception. Jerry and his cronies drive up to sweetheart's home. The grounds are lavishly decorated and the interior of the house is a triumphal arch for the returning hero. Jerry is asked to tell of his experiences. This he does, sorely taxing his imagination. In the meantime the motion picture director has discovered the loss of his car. Meeting the guards, who are on a hunt for Jerry, he enters a complaint. Given the car number they have little difficulty in tracing the active Jerry. When the reception is at its height the guards enter. The three cronies, having imbibed freely from the punch bowl, have fallen into the accustomed prison lockstep. Whatever doubt may have existed in the guard's mind as to the identity of the group is immediately dispelled by this action and they collar the three and handcuff them. Jerry, having had no time to escape, is treated in the same fashion. All prisoners, again in lockstep, are then marched off to the police auto and driven away, while the guests show great indignation towards the members of the family and leave. Jerry and his cronies are returned to the prison, put in stripes and again set to work, this time, however, with ball and chain attachments.
- Jerry has boarded a freight and has successfully secluded himself from the watchful train crew. He is about to alight at a station when the town constable detects him. There is no way of escape and as he is about to give up, a bright idea comes to Jerry. He has with him a big roll of stage money and with it he bribes the "law." Making for the town tavern, Jerry believes that he can fool the man behind the bar with his fake money. Meanwhile, the constable gathers his cronies together and as they make merry the bartender discovers that the bill handed him by the guardian of the law is a fake. A fight results and in the mix-up Jerry escapes. In his wild dash for liberty Jerry comes across a settlement of moonshiners. He hides until all are out of sight, excepting the pretty daughter of one of the band. A flirtation follows and the girl accepts Jerry's advances. Soon the mother appears and the girl, frightened, runs away while Jerry is looking in another direction. The mother takes her place, as Jerry continues his scene, unaware that the girl has left. The father arrives upon the scene to find a strange man making love to his wife. Jerry sneaks off, reaches the cabin, and is admitted by the girl, but, fearing her father's anger, she induces Jerry to hide in the attic. The moonshiners join the father in the hunt for the stranger, but the girl will not betray her new flame. The angry men start firing off their revolvers in every direction and several bullets pierce the ceiling, one of which smashes a bottle of wine which Jerry is drinking. The liquor leaks through a crack in the floor and drips to the floor below, divulging Jerry's hiding place. The moonshiners rush upstairs, but as they show their heads above the flooring, Jerry greets them with bottle after bottle, well aimed. Revenue officers who are searching for the moonshiners are attracted by the shooting. Jerry sees them from a window and decides to escape, when, noticing the constable with them, changes his mind and comes downstairs, and, after a small riot manages to get out of the cabin, only to run into the arms of of the revenue officers. To save himself, Jerry offers to show them the way to the moonshiners' camp. His invitation is accepted, and the revenue men capture the moonshiners and the father. As they are led away, Jerry shows pleasure, believing that he will be left to woo the pretty daughter, but the constable recognizes Jerry as the man who gave him the bad money and a moment later our hero is also a prisoner. Jerry and the captives are chained together and carried away, while the daughter and mother tramp along behind, weeping bitterly.
- With their funds entirely exhausted, Jerry and Hank are in a quandary to obtain further means of sustenance. They have tried several methods without success. Disconsolate, they wander to the town depot, arriving just as a troupe of Uncle Tom's Cabin players step from the train. Anxious to get business the company manager commissions Jerry to pass out heralds among the townspeople. The work is distasteful to Jerry, who decides that the heralds can be used to better advantage. He and Hank follow the actors to the hotel and with the heralds as credentials proclaim themselves as members of the troupe to the gullible hotel proprietor, who forthwith provides them with a meal. While Jerry and Hank are disporting themselves the manager enters, and looking at the register, inquires how Jerry and Hank's names happen to appear there as with his company. The light dawning upon him, the hotel man drags the impostors from the dining room. As they reach the desk another commotion is on. Little Eva and the Angel of Death quit and leave. Without the pair there can be no performance and to starve off such an event the manager hires Jerry and Hank to play the parts. After a lot of adventures Jerry and Hank arrive at the theater that night and are made up for their roles. Their make-up is funny, but their performance funnier and it ends up in a riot, with the audience, such as there is of it, egging them on. The other performers, angered because the show is broken up, start after the disturbers, who by this time have reached the street. In their queer garb they seek shelter in a house which is occupied by a spiritualistic medium and enter just as a séance is at its height. The spiritualists assume that Jerry and Hank are real spirits and bow their heads before them, while the medium stands triumphant at the head of the group. Then the illusion is spoiled, for the Uncle Tom actors have followed Jerry and Hank and enter at this moment. A merry time follows, but Jerry and Hank get out of the enemy's clutches and are last seen running full speed down the road.
- Being a plebeian, Jerry makes no impression upon Lady Isabelle with his love making and she accepts Archy, a man of title. Disconsolate, Jerry goes to a park and is approached by a man who introduces himself as a lawyer and who tells Jerry he has inherited a title and is rich. Jerry accompanies the lawyer and is paid two dollars, the remainder having gone for legal fees. He advises Jerry to dress befitting his rank and he buys an outfit which he thinks is O.K. Archy and Lady Isabelle are married and Jerry is invited to the wedding and does the wrong thing at the wrong time. Lady Isabella has a wayward brother who comes to her for financial aid. Archy sees her giving money to him and his suspicions are aroused. Further evidence warrants him doing something desperate and he hires Jerry to put the man out of the way. Jerry is unsuccessful and in despair Archy leaves. Lady Isabelle sends for Archy and he returns at night. He spies his wife's brother sleeping under the bed, and Jerry, who is hiding behind the screen, while there is the maid reposing in the cradle. Horrified he calls Lady Isabelle to account. Explanations are made and all ends happily.
- Jerry and Grace are in love but the latter's father frowns upon this match, preferring I.M. Short for a son-in-law. Grace protests strongly. Jerry writes his sweetheart a note planning an elopement but before reaching its destination it is discovered by the butler and given to the father. Grace is locked in her room and a plan of action is formulated to prevent the elopement. The elopement fails but with results not anticipated by the father. Next morning Grace sends a note to Jerry and plans means for escape. In a very amusing manner she eludes her father and meets Jerry at the appointed place. Here unknown to the lovers two toughs spy them and hide behind them. While Jerry is preparing for a little osculatory exercise and Grace has her eyes closed in anticipation each tough steals a kiss, Grace opening her eyes sees the toughs and she and Jerry run off in a panic. In the meanwhile the father, discovering the disappearance of his daughter, starts out after the runaway couple accompanied by Mr. Short who has come to ask for Grace's hand. While the toughs are congratulating themselves on their experience the father and Mr. Short appear. The latter are held up, forced to exchange garments and are started on their way by a couple of shots from the toughs' revolvers. These shots attract the attention of nearby hunters. The tramps plan to escape suspicion and one of them falls to the ground pretending to be hurt. When the hunters come up the other tramp informs them that his comrade has been shot by the fleeing parties and the hunters immediately give chase. Meantime Jerry and Grace are enjoying themselves at a picnic with a great crowd of friends when into their midst rush the father and Short pursued by the hunters. One of the hunters accidentally drops his gun and Jerry immediately seizes it firing it off promiscuously. Alarmed by the havoc he has wrought, Jerry rushes out to the road and here sees the tramps. Realizing the situation he marches the toughs to the picnic grounds at the point of the gun. There the father and Short are rehabilitated in their proper garments, the toughs are taken into custody and Jerry and Grace receive the parental blessing.
- Jerry starts out to celebrate the Fourth. He starts off by blowing up a stand of fireworks after he has appropriated a number of giant crackers to himself. Pursued by the proprietor of the stand, Jerry seeks refuge in the part. He comes across a policeman slumbering on a bench and rudely awakens the guardians of the law by exploding one of the big firecrackers. A chase follows and Jerry almost runs into the police station. A small runabout attracts his attention and as an angry squad of police close in on him he leaps into the automobile and speeds away. Arriving at his sweetheart's home he takes pride in describing his new automobile, but when the father sees it he orders Jerry away. Jerry goes for a spin in the country and comes across a settlement of Indians. A happy thought comes to him to sell the machine to the chief and with the money buy a better car so as to win over the consent of the parent of his sweetheart. The chief pays a fabulous sum for the car. In the meantime the entire police force turns out to find Jerry. They soon discover him talking with the Indians. In the mix-up Jerry escapes, and steals the auto. The police and Indians fight over the ownership of the small car, the former finally starting off with it with the Indians in hot pursuit. Jerry is overtaken as he enters his sweetheart's home. The Indians have flocked about the house and a battle is in progress between the police and the angry warriors. Jerry pretends he has been shot and drops at the feet of the father. The girl is heartbroken until Jerry winks at her. Jerry is unable to carry his ruse out and he is observed by the officers. The house is in an uproar but Jerry at last leaps from the top floor of the building to the gardens, runs to the street and speeds away in the big car. The Indians gain possession of the car their chief bought, and they, too, speed away leaving the entire police department defeated.
- Jerry, without position or wealth, finds an obstacle in his efforts to win the hand of a pretty daughter of a land owner, in the person of a French Count. The girl favors Jerry, but her father, to better his position in society, insists that she accept the Frenchman. Jerry is pleading his love when the nobleman arrives. Fearing the wrath of her father, the girl receives the foreigner. Jerry argues with the Frenchman and the latter challenges him to fight, after slapping Jerry's face with his gloves and pulling his nose. The father is attracted by the noise of battle, and when Jerry sees the old man coming, he beats a retreat, followed by the girl. That night Jerry plants himself outside of the old man's home, writes a note, ties it to a brick and throws it through an open window. The brick strikes the father and lays him low. The girl obtains and reads the note, which suggests they elope. She hurriedly prepares to escape from the house and join Jerry. The Count unexpectedly arrives on the scene, accompanied by two henchmen. They detect Jerry waiting and as the girl comes out to meet him, she is made a captive by the Count and his henchmen, who throw a robe over her head and carry her off. Jerry follows the abductors. In the meantime the father has regained consciousness. He telephones the police and a search is made for the girl and Jerry. The girl has been carried to a lonely house and cast into a deserted room, to which Jerry later gains an entrance. He is discovered by the henchmen and the Count and is lured to a position over a trap door. While he is talking with the Count the trap is sprung. Jerry lands in the cellar below. The police arrive at the house and one by one they are sent below to join Jerry. Jerry gains the confidence of the cops and they plan get upstairs to save the girl and to capture the Count and his henchmen. They make their escape from the cellar and surprise the party upstairs. Just then the father arrives and Jerry is tempted to send him through the trap door, but on second consideration decides to lead the father to his daughter and thereby gain his favor. The reunion takes place and the police are about to depart when the Count again appears. Jerry springs the trap and the Count as his henchmen disappear. The father, realizing that the Count is of no account, turns to Jerry and places the hand of his daughter in that of her persistent suitor. Then the trio depart for the minister's house, while the Count and his henchmen are placed under arrest.
- Jerry's continued love for the fair sex brings him in contact with the daughter of a village squire. The old man has employed a gardener whose duty it is to see that the fair product of the family shall not even saunter outside of the grounds near the house. But while the gardener is busy pruning trees or flipping the grass, the daughter makes her way to the hedge about the place and there she meets Jerry. The gardener sees him and quickly transmits the incident to his master. They pounce upon Jerry and the girl and during the mix-up Jerry manages to get away with the daughter. The two find shelter on a bench under a tree but just as they are getting interested in each other along comes Hank, "the terrible Swede," who is a terrible pugilist. Hank has a naughty eye which keeps winking at the girl and when Jerry suddenly gets wise he picks a fight with the Swede. Luckily Jerry is aided by a few handy rocks and an iron bar and he makes the elongated one look foolish. As Hank, the Swede, recovers from the sting of defeat at the hands of this sawed-off being, Jerry makes a hasty exit. Jerry's sprint carries him to the town hall and he arrives in time to see a poster on a fence announcing the debut of "The Terrible Swede," who will meet all comers in the squared arena. Jerry suddenly decides to contest for the. honors. The night of the event finds him at the ringside and the manager of the Swede announces that all comers are welcome to try their brain and brawn against the clever boxer. The silence is broken by Jerry's shout, "I'll take 'em on." Jerry is wildly applauded by the fans and two seconds tog him out in fighting attire. When the Swede enters, he recognizes Jerry as the one who had done him up not many hours previous and he wants to rip him to bits without any ceremony. But Jerry makes a hasty exit to the dressing room. There he spies some weights which are used on the weighing machine and he stuffs his gloves to the fullest extent. Jerry returns to the ring. The gong sounds and they go to it. The Swede has Jerry at his mercy, holding him off with one of his long arms while he pelts him at will with the other. Finally exhausted, Jerry drops and while he is recovering the "champ" is busily engaged bowing here and there to his admirers. Jerry sees his chance and he lands with both hands on the Swede's "dome" knocking him insensible and the count of ten proclaims Jerry victor. He is handed his bag of gold and is having a fine time counting it when the police break in. Everyone escapes excepting Jerry and his victim and they are arrested. At the police station Jerry attempts to explain but there is no way out of it. The sergeant takes Jerry's money and is about to place him in a cell when an alarm comes in and the big bell starts to ring. It acts as a tonic on the Swede, who comes to and believing it to be the bell at the ringside he wades in among the cops and puts them all in the land of dreams, with Jerry's assistance. When all are unconscious, Jerry grabs his money and he and the Swede run off to have a good time on the spoils.
- Out of funds and unable to pay his long overdue board bill, Jerry is in a bad way. To make matters worse he is not permitted to even see his sweetheart, her father having voiced the decision that he wants no penniless son-in-law. In seeking a way out of his precarious financial predicament Jerry gets himself into trouble with two policemen and his landlady. He succeeds in vanquishing the officers, but the landlady is more sturdy and knocks out poor Jerry. She leaves him on the floor, dead to the world, to answer the postman's ring. A letter arrives addressed to Jerry. Curiosity getting the better of her, the landlady steams open the envelope and is amazed to learn that Jerry is heir to three million dollars. Forgetting her past differences she returns to him and. being leap year, proposes. Jerry decides there is safety in flight and rushes out of the house, grabbing the letter as he speeds away. Alone and in safety he reads the letter and, overjoyed at the news, hurries to his sweetheart's home to tell her of his good fortune. The butler, who has been instructed by father not to admit him. attempts to bar his way, but Jerry pushes through the lines. The master of the house is called and armed with a revolver starts after the intruder. As he approaches Jerry seeks safety in a cabinet. Unknown to anyone a burglar is hiding in the clothes closet in the same room. He has locked the door and the father of the house naturally surmises that it is Jerry who is within. Father fires through the door, creating confusion in the household, of which Jerry is quick to take advantage as an opportunity of escape. He dashes out into the street and into the arms of the two policemen, the very two with whom he has previously had trouble. They take him back to the house, where they are met by astonished father with the burglar. One of the officers takes charge of the burglar and the other takes Jerry. While this is happening the landlady receives a telegram stating that the news of Jerry's riches is a mistake. Just as she finishes reading it the policeman comes up with Jerry, who is handed the telegram and so overcome that he faints away.