A child's great-great-grandmother's diary reveals the story behind a fallen elm tree, "rescued" pumpkins, and an unusual pig who saves the Cobtown Harvest Festival in 1845.
In Cobtown in 1845, a ten-year old Lucky Hart describes in her diary the frightening adventure she and her friend Fliberty Jibbert experience when they set out to rescue Oinkey the pig from the Ploomajiggy Museum of Animal History.
In 1845, Cobtown's Christmas is affected by the failure of the organ at the party being given to feed the residents' pets and by the arrival of a mysterious blind man who does not speak English.