To apologize for his actions, the Professor signs the delivery receipt, but the pen Stan and Ollie give him squirts ink over his face. He attacks the piano with an axe, destroying it, but regrets his actions when his wife returns home and tearfully tells her husband it had been a surprise birthday present. Meanwhile, the owner of 1127 Walnut Avenue is revealed to be Professor von Schwartzenhoffen, who returns and is outraged at what he finds, as he hates pianos.

They make a shambles of the living room while unpacking it. Stan and Ollie promptly carry the piano back down the stairs, put it back in their wagon and drive it up the hill to the house.ДЇinding no one home, they finally succeed in getting the piano in the house, after dropping it into the fountain and falling in themselves. They wearily drag it back up the stairs, and meet the postman by the house, who informs them they did not have to lift the piano up the stairs they could have driven up the hill and stopped in front of the house. As they ring the bell of 1127 Walnut Avenue, the piano rolls back down to the street again. The outraged professor leaves, loudly threatening to have the two arrested.ДЇinally, Stan and Ollie get the piano to the top, where Ollie falls into a fountain. He screams at Stan and Ollie to get the piano out of his way, and Stan knocks the Professor's top hat down the stairs and into the street, where it is crushed by a passing vehicle. Ollie very reasonably and sensibly suggests he walk around, which sets off the Professor in a fit of Teutonic rage. He impatiently tells them to take the piano out of his way he should like to pass. Halfway up, they encounter the short-tempered and pompous Professor Theodore von Schwartzenhoffen ( Billy Gilbert), M.D., A.D., D.D.S., F.L.D., F-F-F- and-F. The two doggedly persist in carrying the piano up the stairs for a third time.

Meanwhile, the piano has rolled down the steps again. The cop then confronts the hapless duo, kicking Ollie twice and hitting Stan with his nightstick after the latter suggests the officer is 'bounding over his steps' (i.e. In a double entendre line, the angry woman tells a policeman ( Sam Lufkin) on the corner that she was 'kicked right in the middle of my daily duties'. Stan and Ollie then heft the piano back up the stairs. After the lady laughs at them, Stan kicks her in her backside, causing her to punch him back and hit Ollie over the head with a milk bottle. During their first attempt, they encounter a nursemaid (Lilyan Irene) pushing a baby carriage down the steps in trying to let her pass, they knock the piano back down the stairs. Their attempts to carry the piano up the stairs result in it rolling and crashing into the street below several times, twice with Ollie in tow. The duo soon learn from a postman ( Charlie Hall) that the home is at the top of a very long stairway. She tells the manager her address - 1127 Walnut Avenue - and he hires the Laurel and Hardy Transfer Company to deliver the piano in their freight wagon. In a music store, a woman (Hazel Howell) orders a player piano as a surprise birthday gift for her husband.

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