When Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his brother Bob in charge, Duck makes trouble by changing all the instructions to notes the animals like much better.
When their mothers announce that it is bedtime, the baby animals of the forest express their objections; but when wise Grandma Owl hoots that it's storytime, they respond differently.
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.