After losing his beloved donkey to a ravenous wolf, a poor man is roused to such sorrow and anger that he challenges the beast to take the place of the donkey and pull the cart that is his livelihood.
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Detective Doggedly, a pair of cows, and a sheep who looks very familiar are all nearby each time three pigs get in trouble, but the big bad wolf is conspicuously absent.