Three clever billy goats outwit a big, ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain.

A cow that oinks and a pig that moos are ridiculed by the other barnyard animals until each teaches the other a new sound.

Horace feels really mean at the end of a bad day, until he helps his mother make Mean Soup.

Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother. Follow the progress of a little girl and her father as they purchase "a garden," and board the bus to carry it home. The pansies, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, and daisies are lovingly planted in a window box, and the candles on the cake are lighted--just as Mom walks in the door to find her daughter, her husband, and her birthday surprise.