The Counter Jumper (1922)

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries counter jumper was the term used in both Britain and the USA to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium Here Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters As usual for Semon most of the gag setups are deeply contrived and implausible We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face