The Traveling Salesman is a 1921 American comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle.

[1][2] A print of The Traveling Salesman with German intertitles survives at the George Eastman House.

[1][3] As described in a film publication,[4] Bob Blake (Arbuckle), a travelling salesman, is the victim of a practical joke and gets off the train before his intended destination of Grand River.

Bob is drenched in the pouring rain and, when he cannot find lodging, breaks into a private house that the sheriff is going to sell for a tax delinquency.

The house belongs to Beth Elliott (Clarke), a telegraph operator at Grand River Station.