 After Plato s Peak is demolished by a thunderstorm, everyone joins in to help clean it up. Everyone that is, except Sock the bobcat who is too lazy to pitch in. Plato then tells him the classic tale by Rudyard Kipling of "How the Camel Got His Hump" as well as part of Mark Twain s "Tom Sawyer" (the part where Tom lets his friends take over his job of whitewashing the fence). Sock even learns a bit about cooperation with a bundle of sticks. Finally, his friends convince him to help.