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Private Notes
There's a baby contest in town, so the gang decides to enter their younger siblings. Farina manages to take a break from sitting around all day in order to dress up his little brother for the competition.
Farina and Harry aren't having much luck with their boxing enterprise: Wheezer and Beezer are barely able to attract two spectators. Farina notices that Joe and Chubby are competing for Jean's affection, but that neither of them has the guts to fight. He puts them into the boxing ring, telling each of them that the other has agreed to lay down.
The president of the local humane society notices the gang using their animals to propel their go-carts, and educates them about kindness to animals. This inspires the gang to convert others to this philosophy. Wheezer isn't convinced until he has a nightmare in which he is put on trial by giant farm animals. Meanwhile, the gang sets free all the animals in town, including laboratory mice.
With a new baby brother in the family, Wheezer isn't getting the attention he used to get. Farina suggests that he take the baby back to the hospital to trade him in for a goat. Wheezer takes his advise, and the nurse at the hospital plays along with him.
The gang escapes from their Saturday chores and gather in the park to complain about their predicament. Farina scoffs at his mother's warning that the devil will get him if he doesn't do his work. Meanwhile, a man dressed in a devil costume (for advertising purposes) overhears the kids and decides to scare the daylights out of them. This works quite well, and the kids work so frenetically that their mothers think they've gone out of their minds.
The gang decides to dig for buried treasure in the basement of an old abandoned house, against the advise of Kennedy the Cop. While in the house, they're tormented by a lunatic.
The wife of Kennedy the Cop is staging a Shakespearean play featuring the schoolchildren. Everything goes from bad to worse as the kids have trouble remembering their lines and some tough kids in the back of the auditorium starts throwing eggs. This climaxes in a good old-fashioned pie-fight.
Jackie has a crush on Mary Ann, and Kennedy the Cop gives him advise on how to court her. As it turns out, Speck is also flirting with Mary Ann, who suggests that the two boys should have a duel. So they don makeshift armor and proceed to cut up everything in sight.
On a particularly windy night, Jackie gets locked out of his house wearing only his nightshirt. He climbs a ladder to Mary Ann's window, but when she realizes his visit isn't of a romantic nature, she kicks him out. Jackie also manages to convince the neighborhood that a burglar is prowling around, giving Kennedy the Cop an excuse to bumble around.
Spud has to stay home and "grease" Wheezer, who has the croup, and can't join the gang on their hunting trip. However, Mary Ann agrees to watch Wheezer if Spud takes them along, so the journey gets underway after all. Some bootleggers are stationed near where the gang has set up camp, and one of them puts on a gorilla costume to scare them.
Stepin Fetchit is busy avoiding work around his house, and enlists the gang to help him read a love letter and clean up after a disastrous taffy-pull.
