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cop arrives, he dances innocently back into the store, past the boss and out again. On top of the ladder Charlie "shoe polishes" one of the golden balls after bouncing it on the rival's head. In an attempt to clean an inaccessible sign he tips the ladder and goes through a magnificent balancing act before the ladder falls. Rising, Charlie's first thought is to see if his watch is still running.
Another bout with the clerk exhausts the boss's patience. Fired, Charlie pleads for his job, pantomiming that he has six children. The boss has his hands clasped behind his back but Charlie manages a farewell handshake. As the boss relents Charlie catapults upon him in gratitude. Immediately after, the wrestle with the rival clerk resumes. Charlie is giving his enemy a beating when the boss's daughter enters. Charlie drops down and pretends to be the victim, getting her consolation while his rival gets the scolding. When her consoling hand strays off, he hauls it back. Taken to the kitchen, he is further consoled with a home-baked doughnut so heavy that he uses it for dumbbell exercises, and it breaks the plate it is dropped on. Other comic business includes passing a plate, a cup, and his hands through a dry-wringer; a flashlength impersonation with a lei made of dough around his neck, strumming a ladle ukulele, and a show of innocent preoccupation by passing dough through the wringer to make pie crust when the boss's sudden entrance interrupts another altercation.
Into the shop staggers an old man — the broken-downShakespearean-actor type. With quivering emotion and tragic gestures he offers his wedding ring for pawn. Charlie, reduced to tears, can find only a ten-dollar bill in the register. Told to keep the ring, the old man puts the bill in his mouth, pulls out a big wad of money, and counts the change over to Charlie. As he exits Charlie blinks and slaps his face with a hammer. Next follows a typical transmutation. A rope on the floor defies all of Charlie's at