Little Joe has a penny to spend. He is offered lots of noisy things for his penny: a rooster, a turkey, a horseshoe, a saucepan, some nails and a hammer, a box of matches and some crackers, a drum, a pony, a kitten, a calf, a pig, a jangling money-box, and a tractor. When Joe hears the bell of the ice cream man's little cart, he decides to buy an ice cream.