i guess this be the first time i have see a roscoe fatty arbuckle movie . i really liked him in his ( title ) role a a butcher boy . the way he move be very funny in my opinion and for example how he handle his knife and the way he roll a cigarette . i think he be a good actor while his facial expression really suit the role he play and for example how he wink at the audience in the end . but one might add that that be probably not too difficult . anyway i think he would have deserve a longer career . a you probably know it be ruin by greedy journalist who make money by print false accusation that say he be involve in a scandal . the plot be not very important . in the first half and fatty and alum be employee at a store and rival for almondine affection . after a heavy food fight and almondine be send to a girls school by her father and the store owner . ( this be the beginning of the second half ) . both fatty and alum enter the school in drag and and the fight for almondine continue . ( some of the character name be different in the version that i have see . it seem that for some reason they replace the original title card with new one . ) there be a lot of corny gag like food fight and pratfall and but they be do well in my opinion . and there be some gag i really like and for example how they make the dog run the pepper mill ( or be it a coffee mill . ) and or the scene when fatty don a coat although it be obviously not necessary and or when miss teachem and the head of the girl school and spank fatty and and he spank her back . buster keaton be also funny in this and his first and movie while a good addition to the cast . in the first half he be a customer at the store and in the second half he support alum in his fight for almondine . i like his acrobatics and for example when fatty push him from one room of the school to another and he doesn not show a simple pratfall but land on his hand and his head and do a little pirouette . watch out for one scene in the food fight represent alum throw a flour bag at him and but it miss and hit the store owner instead . that make buster laugh and which must be a rarity since he normally always show a neutral expression ( which a you probably also know already get him the nickname the great stone face ) . ( one more note represent al st. john and who play alum and be fatty arbuckle nephew and and later become famous for the role of fuzzy that he play in lot of western . ) i do not like this one as much a i like and for example and one week and the balloonatic ( film that buster make later and without fatty ) . and it do not make me laugh out loud often but it make me smile a lot and so i have give it eight point .