- Projectionist: [as Sherlock Jr., riding on the handlebars of a motorcycle, unaware the driver fell off] Be careful or one of us will get hurt.
- Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema: I lost a dollar. Did you find it?
- Projectionist: [points to the trash pile] In there?
- Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema: Yes, did you?
- Projectionist: [nods reluctantly, pulls it out] Describe it.
- Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema: [gestures] This long.
- [Buster checks it]
- Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema: This wide.
- [he checks again, she makes a bird with her hands, he checks and hands it over]
- Title card: There is an old proverb which says: Don't try to do two things at once and expect to do justice to both. This is the story of a boy who tried it. While employed as a moving picture operator in a small town theater he was also studying to be a detective.
- Title card: By the next day the mastermind has completely solved the mistery, with the exception of locating the pearls and finding the thief.
- The sheik: [to Sherlock Jr. about a man locked in a tight cage] That's a detective. When he's dead I'll put you in there.