The narrator recalls the sights and sounds of the street vendors who came to her house when she was a child and the lessons she learned about being fair and honest.
A very cosmopolitan musical troupe is formed over the course of a week as animal after animal shows up at a country house, playing a variety of instruments.
A snowman is upset to learn he will melt, but his animal friends save his eyes, clothes, and broom and return them when the children make him the next winter.
