Huckle and Lowly buy a special cuckoo clock for Mother Cat, but because Huckle's bike bell doesn't work, he has an accident and the cuckoo clock breaks. Despite his talkative Irish forefathers, Patrick O'Swine can't utter a word. The gang goes skating on Grouchy Mr. Gronkle's pond, and when the old koot sees them on his property, he hurries to shoo them away.