One day as Squirrel Nutkin and Nutcose Nutkin were walking through the woods acorn hunting, they saw a cracked egg on the side of the path. They heard a peeping sound coming from the egg. It went, "peep, peep, peep." Squirrel Nutkin and Nutcose Nutkin walked over for a closer look.

"It's a newborn chick!" Squirrel Nutkin exclaimed.

"I wonder what happened to it?" Nutcose wondered aloud, "I wonder if its mother left it?"

"I don't know?" Squirrel Nutkin said, "But I do know that we should take the chick to Chicken Poo-Poo so we can find out more."

Squirrel Nutkin and Nutcose Nutkin carefully picked up the egg and set it in their wagon with the acorns. They carefully turned the wagon around and dragged it back through the forest. They went back first to Squirrel Nutkin's house to drop off the acorns and get a blanket to put in the bottom of the wagon for the chick. Then they headed off to Chicken Poo-Poo's house.

When they got to Chicken Poo-Poo's house, Nutcose Nutkin ran up to the door, knocked and said, "Please let us in Chicken Poo-Poo! This is an emergency!"

Chicken Poo-Poo opened the door and said, "What is the emergency?"

"Well," said Nutcose, "We went acorn hunting in the woods, and saw this egg on the ground. We went over and looked and there was a newborn chick in it, left all alone. It was peeping and we think it needs help."

"Bring the chick inside," Chicken Poo-Poo said. Squirrel Nutkin and Nutcose Nutikin brought the chick inside.