Lizabeth and her mother chat, and Lizabeth recalls the time she ate a piece of caterpillar. As a young girl, Lizabeth was being watched by her mother when she suddenly started to throw a fit. When her father, John, unwraps her fist to find an orange caterpillar with a bite taken out of it, he and his wife are worried sick, wondering whether or not their baby girl will be alright. To settle their worries, John takes the rest of the caterpillar and eats it, saying that if he lives, she'll live, and they won't have to worry themselves any longer. Meanwhile, a man named Albert Wilkes shoots a police officer dead in the night. Coming to the family's house, he seeks out John's help to hide the murder weapon under their ice box. While watching her daughter, Freeda discovers the revolver and anxiously awaits her husband to return home from gambling to confront him. With Lizabeth in her lap, the two of them watch John return home through a window. Just a few steps before reaching the door, a gun is fired, leaving a hole right by John's feet. Moving to action, Freeda punches through the windowpane, pointing the revolver in the direction of the figure who dropped their gun and is now running down the street. Freeda yells out a warning which distracts the attacker long enough to save John from them. Once inside, Freeda chastizes him for keeping a gun in the house—whether it was loaded or not—and orders him to get rid of it. Freeda recalls these stories with Lizabeth, who eagerly listens for more, but her daddy is almost home and her mother is getting upset, so they quit for the night.