A delightful detective story about the beloved animal characters on Mr. Bean's farm, whose adventures have entertained so many children. The pig, Freddy, stimulated by reading of Sherlock Holmes, sets up in business as a detective.

Beginning with the disappearance of the children's train of cars which the rats steal to ride safely back and forth from their holes to the feedbox, Freddy solves a series of very mysterious cases. All the animals become involved, there is a frame-up, and the climax is the great trial scene in the barn, where Freddy and Ferdinand the Crow are the opposing lawyers and Charles the Rooster, the judge. 

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