Abner followed Grandpappy Spears suggestion of patching things up with Elizabeth by giving her a present - a little kitten named Annabelle. Somehow, this name reached Sister Simpson, and the gossip monger who immediately imagined Annabelle to be a woman. This news reached Lum, who decided that Sister Simpson must have in mind an ex Pine Ridge girl, named Annabelle Kerny. So, in order to save Abner, he and Mousey formed a plan to start a rumour that it was he, Lum, who was in love Miss Kerny...