Like every city and hamlet at this season of the year the Great Gildersleeve’s town of Summerfield is preparing for Christmas. The streets are a glitter with lights, the store windows are bulging with gifts and silent call of jingle bells lures the customers in to the shops. And enterprising boys like Leroy are busy devising moneymaking schemes to heed the call.

Near the end of the story Birdie sings “Oh Christmas Tree”.