Helen Cooper

With no pumpkins to be had for their favorite soup, Cat and Squirrel, with reluctant help from Duck, make other kinds of delicious soups but fussy Duck proves very difficult to please. Cat, Duck, and Squirrel must decide on another soup to make because there are no ripe pumpkins in the garden.

While making pumpkin soup, three friends discover they have no salt and go to the city to buy some, but while Cat and Squirrel head straight to the salt store, Duck pauses at a pepper shop, then fears he will never see his friends again.