While making pumpkin soup, three friends discover they have no salt and go to the city to buy some, but while Cat and Squirrel head straight to the salt store, Duck pauses at a pepper shop, then fears he will never see his friends again.
A cat named Splat falls off his bicycle on his way to school, landing nose to beak with a duck, and when the duck does not make a sound, Splat packs it in his backpack to bring to Mrs. Wimpydimple at school.