Tom is temporarily distracted when Becky stops coming to school. He is so concerned about Becky that he stops playing and loses interest in everything. His quiet behaviour causes Aunt Polly to be concerned about him. An experimenter at heart, Polly tries all sorts of remedies on Tom in an effort to cure him,

Aunt Polly orders a new painkiller and gives to her nephew. Tom pretends to like the horrible painkiller and asks his aunt frequently so she tells Tom to take it for himself. While aunt Polly is not looking, he pours the medicine in a crack on the sitting room floor. His aunt’s cat, Peter comes into the room, Tom takes a spoonful of the painkiller and gives it to the cat.

When the cat swallows it, it jumps in the air and bangs against the furniture and jumps out of the window, leaving behind a mess. Aunt Polly finds out that Tom has fed the painkiller to the cat. She pulls him up by his ear and asks him why he gave the painkiller to the cat. Tom replies that he gave it to the cat out of pity as the cat doesn’t have any aunt to roast its bowels. She immediately realizes her folly and stops giving medicines to him.