 A brace of ducks is herded by a mouse twirling a cane like a baton, and they re all followed by a lone black duck, who quickly makes a nuisance of himself. The mouse chases him about and gets into a fight with him, afterward tying him to a tree. The ducks are ushered into a pond by the herder, where they re espied by a cat, who asks one of his friends at a local tavern to help him catch the fowl. They try to trick the mouse with a distracting magazine and decoys, and manage to capture all the ducks in the pond. When the black duck realizes what has happened, he alerts the mouse and together they rescue the ducks.