Bobby Dunn is out of work and is caught stealing cakes by an officer. Upon showing the officer a letter, really an advertising stunt by a local theatre, which says that he will have to get work or his mother goes to the poorhouse, the officer sympathizes with him and finds him a job in some iron works. The work is too strenuous. He leaves, assisted by a crane. The officer gets him another job, this time at bricklaying. After dropping his bricks and falling off a ten story building, the officer finds it necessary to find him another job. This is in a powder factory. He gets into trouble right away but succeeds in helping the owner's daughter to recover a formula for making a new explosive. They are both caught by the thieves and put in a powder shed and blown up. The thieves are caught by the cops and Bobby gets a job for life.
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