Two adventurous young cats-Sinbad and the Duke-are best friends who share a "trampish love of the free and easy life." They travel together, away from the tall buildings of the north, in search of a home where they can practice the skip and shuffle of their boxing technique. With luck, they find themselves proud residents of their very own home-an abandoned shack in an overgrown garden. Food is scarce until one man, an old sea captain new to the neighborhood,...

Captain Tinker sends Jenny Linsky off to boarding school for the summer, but when another student frightens her, she tries to run away.