When the Owl and the Pussycat sailed away in a pea-green boat, they came to a land where a piggy-wig stood, and this is the story of that pig with a ring at the end of his nose.
The hard winter that Analdas, the old Rabbit, prophesies comes to pass in more ways than one for the dwellers of Rabbit Hill when the "Folk" go away and leave a neglectful Caretaker with a mean Dog in charge.