 Jeff has been elected member of the billiards club executive committee, but the very reason for his candidacy -spending most evenings almost entirely out of home- makes him shy away from telling his dear wife. Odilon s colleague Marcel has been advertising his dog Flupke -for free, his wife complained it got more attention then she- weeks on end to no avail. So Jeff decides to give the  sweet little mutt  as companion to Jeanne, but when Odilon shows up it is a Leeuwenburger, which is nearly St.Bernards-size. As Lus, who he landed with presenting the over-sized  present , points out, he will punish himself severely as a dog that size causes horribly much work and nuisance... Meanwhile Hugo is embarrassed to have got a black eye while running away from a fight.