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Rich girl Mary has no friends to play with, so the kindly gardener buys her some homemade dolls. When she takes a nap, the dolls come to life and frolic around her bedroom. While she's sleeping, her unkindly governess throws the dolls out. When the boys of the gang arrive at the house to deliver laundry, Mary thinks her dolls have come to life, since they resemble them so closely. It turns out that the boys had actually modeled for the dollmaker.
Farina wants to play with the boys of the gang, but they keep chasing him away. His mother tells him to stay in his own back yard, but boredom leads him back into the street, where he repeatedly becomes the victim of the gang's pranks. At one point, the gang tries out some toothpaste on their dogs. They're mistaken for mad dogs by the police, and Farina thinks they're shooting at him.
The gang makes a movie, with the help of Billy, who's brought along his home-movie camera. Jackie and Jay are left out, so when the film is premiered, they sabotage the proceedings.
The gang uses an engineless car to start up a horse-drawn taxi service. When Johnny's dad reclaims the horse, the gang gets a motorist to give them a tow up a hill. As the gang is away from the vehicle, Farina takes it for a hair-raising joyride.
The downtrodden kids of the gang have concluded that there is no Santa Claus. Mickey and Johnny, after being visited by the spirit of Santa, earn money to buy the kids Christmas presents and disguise themselves as Santa to deliver the toys.
The gang gets the idea to search for buried treasure and fashion their own boat to do so. When they reach a seemingly deserted island (actually Catalina), they begin digging. Sure enough, they find treasure. As it turns out, the treasure was put there by a movie production team, and since they have men among them dressed as cannibals and wild animals, they get back at the kids by giving them a good scare.
Farina's life is becoming unbearable, both at home and out on the street (where he's picked on by the gang). He decides to run away. Coincidentally, a chimpanzee that's part of a vaudeville show decides the same thing, and the two of them team up to subdue the gang as well as Farina's abusive dad. Things go bad, though, when the chimp gets drunk and runs amok.
A man and woman have been collecting fifty dollars a week over the years from a rich uncle who thinks they've got two kids. When he decides to visit, they have to hire a couple of children to pull one over on the uncle. Luckily, Joe's mom has dressed him in baby clothes to punish him for fighting. He and Mickey (dressed as a girl) agree to take part in the charade. Unfortunately, a midget who wears baby clothes to play practical jokes gets into the act. When the uncle arrives, he finds three kids. When Joe gets fed up and leaves, Jackie takes his place, as though no one will notice.
The gang is staging a production of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" in the barn. Joe's mother makes him clean the yard, until Mickey gets the gang to help out, freeing Joe to play Uncle Tom. The kids in the audience just want to throw fruit, though, so no matter what, the production is bound to go haywire.
Farina is watching Professor Clement's flea circus with his dog, Magnolia, when a flea decides to stowaway on the pooch. The professor offers a dollar to the gang if they can find the flea. They have to eventually attend the wedding of Mary's sister, though, which turns into an itching frenzy as Magnolia walks among the guests.
