Synopsis:
Donald is fighting his neighbour but the nephews talk him into helping people instead. But it's not that easy...

Comments:
Barks' moral is quite clear; help others and be a better person. But good intentions are not always enough, especially if you have Jones as your next door neighbour! Barks used a similar good-deed plot involving Jones in WDCS229.

Synopsis:
The nephews have found a ten-dollar bill and Donald teaches them that the rightful owner should be located. But how does one find the true owner of a simple ten-dollar bill?

Comments:
The Ducks end up finding the owner of the bill, a little girl, and they walk away satisfied in the last panel. Barks' publisher added to the heavy symbolism by drawing halos over the ducks' heads, but they were removed in later editions.

Synopsis:
Donald claims to be an expert on ice fishing but he immediately gets into trouble with a large fish. Perhaps dynamite is the solution...

Comments:
Donald's temper backfires - as usual - in this story, in which he constantly flies off the handle in crazed attempts to catch the elusive fish. In the end, the nephews catch the fish in the normal, quiet manner. The moral of the story in today's language would simply be: Stay cool...

Synopsis:
The nephews try to play hooky from school while Donald is at work. But it is not nearly as easy as they thought!

Comments:
This is a story about cheating, but it is certainly also a story about morals. We follow the nephews' increasingly more desperate attempts to stay out of Donald's way, so he won't discover that they are playing hooky. As time goes by they sink deeper and deeper into a quagmire of bad experiences 'just' because they wanted a day off. Are you following this, schoolchildren???

Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews become chicken farmers on a hilltop but it is not that easy to earn a living.

Comments:
This is by far not the first time Donald has bitten off more than he can chew. Whatever possessed him to think that he can be an expert chicken farmer overnight? Instead he should have concentrated on jobs that he would be sure to be able to manage. A cobbler should stick to his last!, as Scrooge states repeatedly in U$25 The Pyramid Hunt.

Synopsis:
Donald is letting all the decisions of his whole life depend on tosses of a coin. Flipism will lead the way...

Comments:
Fate brings Donald to a situation where he actually stops thinking, and consequently he encounters a lot of unnecessary problems. Barks does not offer a moral as such in this story, but the moral would be that you are your own master and that you should always take responsibility for your own life.

Synopsis:
Donald longs to win a prize for his apples at the county fair and he is nursing them all summer long. But his neighbour is Gladstone!

Comments:
Barks presents us to a story with diverse forms of morals; Donald does good by trying to grow his own apples, Gladstone reaps all the benefits from Donald's labour without lifting a finger, the idle Gladstone turns over the apples to the hardworking Donald in the end...