Hi-Jinx #7

In "All Fowled Up," a young boy named Tommy is entrusted with the key to the Kitty-Kola, a local shop, while Kitty prepares for a fish fry with friends. After a game of Hide the Thimble goes awry, the key ends up swallowed by a chicken, leading to a frantic scramble to retrieve it before morning.

A battered 1920 Durant car, fed up with being mistreated, decides to run away to escape being junked—only to find itself lost, thirsty, and pursued by a ghostly fleet of discarded cars in a junkyard graveyard. With no paint, no gas, and a growing fear of being dismantled, the car must outsmart both the police and its own past, using a talking dog and a clever note to change its fate.

Tommy HePCat, exhausted from working on his jalopy all night, reluctantly joins his friends on a trip to the beach for a costume party, only to fall asleep on a raft and wake up far from shore—just as the party begins. When he finally stumbles back, he’s mistaken for King Neptune, and his accidental swim in the surf earns him an unexpected prize, leaving him flustered and ready to flee.

Mother Goose magically travels back to King Cole’s time, only to find him grumpy and miserable despite his cheerful reputation. When she tries to cheer him up with modern treats and music, he unexpectedly realizes his old ways weren’t so bad after all.

Tommy Hepcat is frustrated when his chickens stop laying eggs, so he tries playing music to inspire them—first with a phonograph, then with Jack Bunny’s violin, but nothing works. When Mr. Square from Delaware suggests using mirrors to make the hens jealous, Tommy sets up the experiment, leading to a surprising and comical reaction from the flock.