Sly Fox, hungry for chicken soup, captures Red Hen in a sack and carries her toward his den. But Red Hen is a talented seamstress, and after the fox stops to nap, she uses the sewing kit tucked in her apron to scissor her way free. She places a rock in the bag, sews it shut and escapes; and Sly Fox discovers her handiwork only when the boulder splashes into his kettle of boiling water.