Once there was a scoldy crow and a know-it-all goat and a nervous rat and a tag-along turtle. Faults and all, they were friends.

The four friends have one enemy, an amateur hunter, who is forever trapping one of them. Rescue teams speed away each day, but they never include Tag-along, for Tag-along's friends think that because he is slow he cannot take care of himself.

How Tag-along finally proves that the slow, too, have their means of escape makes a gay and suspenseful story.