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Professor Fleece is holding a seance, but is continually interrupted by the gang's noisy ball game outside. He chases them off, but they take refuge in their underground hideout, which just happens to be directly beneath the seance room. They manage to ruin the seance, so Fleece decides to give them a good scare.
The kindly fire chief lets the kids play water games around his station. When the firemen go off to fight a fire, the kids tag along, and succeed in helping to put out the fire. As a reward, the chief helps the gang to start their own fire department.
The kids are traveling on a train and playing Cowboys & Indians, much to the dismay of everybody on board. The train arrives at a town called Red Dog, and the gang gets out to look around. They eventually find themselves in a covered wagon which takes them to the hideout of some bandits.
The gang decides to choose two among themselves to polish off Toughey, the local bully, and Joe and Farina are the lucky pair. Fortunately for them, they hear that Toughey has moved out of town, so they return to the gang with a tall tale about how they manhandled the bully and threw him into the lake. As it turns out, Toughey hasn't moved at all, but has been swimming at a nearby swimming hole. A farmer chases him away before he can retrieve his clothes, so he keeps himself hidden. His mother then finds his shirt, which has some red berry stains and thinks that her son has been murdered. This brings in the police, and Joe and Farina make an escape to keep from being arrested.
Farina, Mango and Pleurisy live with Uncle Tom, until the authorities decide he doesn't have a right to them and throw the three kids into the orphanage. When Farina misunderstands the head matron's instructions regarding some chickens, he thinks the kids are all going to get their heads cut off. Uncle Tom comes to rescue them, but gets caught and tried.
The English teacher, Mr. Finlayson, wins a free trip to Europe, only to find that the gang has decided to join him.
It's Joe's 10th birthday, and he's home alone throwing his own party, since his mom can't afford to buy him a cake. Unfortunately, the gang is over at wealthy Jackie's house, much to the dismay of his parents. Joe comes over with his cake, which is full of surprises secretly inserted by Joe's little sister when he wasn't looking.
The gang is putting on a dog show, but soon find out that the local dogcatchers are rounding up all stray dogs because of an epidemic. Unfortunately, Farina can't keep his dog from being caught, and must come up with five dollars if he wants him back.
The gang has formed a 'men's club' and talk new kid Joe into joining so that they can subject him to the initiation. Joe fails to pass this test, but turns the tables on the gang when it becomes known that his dad is a cop. This allows Joe to 'initiate' the gang, until a bad guy decides to use their club as a hideout. When the cops arrive, the gang thinks they're in trouble, and start throwing eggs.
Rich boy Joe is lonely and wants a baby brother, so Farina paints a black baby white and sells him to Joe. Meanwhile, the gang has set up a baby-washing system, and when Joe puts his baby into the machine, the white paint washes off. When the baby's mother arrives, Joe runs home with it.
After completely destroying Joe's mother's fireworks stand, the gang comes across a scientist who's demonstrating some very explosive pills. Pete swallows some of these, and then goes around town causing minor explosions as he spits them out one by one.
