Released on October 2, 1916, it stars Chaplin in the role of assistant to the pawnshop owner, played by Henry Bergman.

He goes about his job in the usual comic Chaplin manner: insulting various eccentric customers and dusting an electric fan while it is running.

Quarreling over a ladder, Chaplin engages in a slapstick battles with his fellow pawnshop assistant and is fired.

In the kitchen Charlie flirts with the pawnbroker's attractive daughter, helping her dry dishes by passing them through a clothes wringer.

Charlie, who has hidden in a trunk after another raucous dispute with his co-worker, spots the man trying to open the pawnshop's vault.