Fatty, a butcher boy in a country store, is in love with Almondine, the daughter of the store's
general manager Mr. Grouch. Fatty's attempts to get close to her are sidetracked when the store's clerk Alum, a rival for Alice's affections, starts a fight with the rotund butcher. Their confrontation in the store soon involves a customer as well as Grouch. The resulting mayhem includes small bags of flour being hurled and "exploding", pies being tossed, and brooms being wildly swung amid the thick clouds of flour lingering in the air. Determined to marry Almondine, Fatty disguises himself as a female cousin and follows her to an all-girls boarding school. Unfortunately, Alum has the same idea and masquerades, too, as a female student. After another fight breaks out between Fatty and Alum, Fatty is taken by the school's principal Miss Teachem to a separate room to be punished. Meanwhile, Alum and his accomplices attempt to kidnap Almondine. Luckily, Fatty's dog
Luke distracts the gang while Fatty and Almondine escape. Once outside, the couple see a sign on a tree identifying a nearby
parsonage, so they run off arm-in-arm to get married there. Note that the subtitles in a later release of
The Butcher Boy cite new names for the characters: Alum is "Slim Snavely" and Almondine is "Amanda". ==Cast==