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- 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 Hallroom boys play "Put and Take" until their top is discovered to have all its sides marked "Take All."
- The Boys answer an ad for a man and wife to manage a summer hotel.
- 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.
- Percy and Ferdie enter the taxi business, building a Ford using tin cans. After a smash-up, the Ford reverts back into a pile of tin cans.
- After contact with a skunk, the boys go swimming. Their clothes are exchanged by escaped convicts, and when the boys have to dress in prison clothes, they are picked up by the authorities.
- 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.
- 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."
- A burlesque prize fight between Percy and a tough of about three times his size.
- The boys have won as a prize a life-size baby doll. Their very particular friends, the Misses Millionbucks, request that they bring the doll to a reception which they are holding. Before the reception takes place, however, a real baby is left at the door of their room, and the situation is covered by dressing the baby in the doll's dress suit. The boys are nabbed before they are able to return the baby to its parents for an offered reward. It turns out, however, that the child belongs not to riches, but to a fruit dealer's wife, who already has twelve children and refuses to shoulder the responsibility of the thirteenth.
- 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.