Elmer Elephant attends Tillie Tiger's backyard birthday party. He enjoys himself, even though a hippo in attendance makes a too-powerful effort to help Tillie blow out her birthday candles and ends up blowing the entire cake in Elmer's face. The poor little elephant's fun ends when childhood cruelty rears its ugly head. A bully persuades the other kids to mock Elmer's big nose. Eventually, they throw him out of the party. A wise old giraffe attempts to console Elmer. Meanwhile, Tillie's tree house catches fire - with Tillie still in it. A trio of pelicans do what they can to deliver water in their pouches, as the firefighting monkeys make inept attempts to put out the mischievous little flames. Elmer comes to the rescue.
—J. Spurlin