Charlie is an assistant to a painter and paper hanger. The painter hitches Charlie to the front of the work cart and uses him like a horse to tow them from job to job. Once they arrive at the house they are scheduled to wallpaper that day, Charlie is used further to hold up scaffolding, but gets distracted by a pretty girl and the boss falls into a bucket of paste. The man of the house is having problems with the stove and his wife, who is being wooed by a Frenchman... and shots ring out! Charlie, being stirred to action gives all the men a face-full of paste and, as they all run into the kitchen, the stove explodes.