Smudge, the only rabbit in the woods without a brother or sister, is told by his mother to wait for spring, but that seems to Smudge to be a long way off.
Four aging animals--a donkey, hunting dog, cat, and rooster--who are no longer of any use to their masters, find a new home on the way to Bremen-Town when they outwit a gang of robbers.
Retells Washinton Irving's famous yarn about a superstitious school master, rival for the hand of a wealthy farmer's daughter, who has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
