Intrigue

Tom's getting ready to settle into the hammock, but Jerry has beat him to it and the battle begins.

Jerry is snoozing in a hammock, until Tom walks out with a drink, a radio, a pillow and a newspaper and tries to sit on it. He spots the mouse and is angry. He slides Jerry off the hammock and into the water. Jerry wakes up and gasps for breath. He sees that Tom did it and flips the hammock over so that he swallows his drink glass and falls. He responds by shaking Jerry off the hammock and into the air. Jerry, by pure fortune, falls into a bird's nest, which transports him through a tree trunk and right back onto the hammock before he can lay down. Tom is dumbfounded, but scoops up the mouse and deposits him on top of a marching ant army. Before Jerry can understand what has happened, he bumps his head on a steel sprinkler. Jerry redirects the ants such that they march onto the hammock, causing the strings to snap and Tom to be rolled up.

Tom has patched up the broken strings and takes a drink while keeping a lookout. Jerry gets onto a lily pad and kicks a bullfrog into his drink. Tom notices nothing and drinks the drink and the frog. All is well until the frog jumps inside of him and hops the cat all the way home. Tom hits his head numerous times along the way. Jerry steals a sip of hi's drink until he gives chase. Jerry unleashes a lawn mower on the cat, and Tom, fearing the loss of his fur, runs away until he gets tied up into the hammock and gets sheared.

Tom has patched up the hammock and sleeps with a baseball bat. Jerry hooks up the hammock to a crank, pulls the crank back as far as it goes, and cuts the line, catapulting him into the air, still asleep. He wakes up when he sees and hears an airplane, but returns to sleep. When Tom sees a flying bird, he is puzzled and looks down to see nothing but ocean below him. He panics and hits the ocean so hard he breaks into 16 pieces.

Meanwhile, Jerry invites his friend, Spike onto the hammock with a bone. Tom is irate and storms back faster than a speeding bullet to catch him in the hammock. Assuming that it's Jerry on the hammock, he quickly unhooks his hammock, wraps Spike up, and hits him numerous times. Tom reaches in and pulls out a collar. He tries to figure out what that could go to. He immediately discounts Jerry because he's a mouse and would be to small to fit it. Then he hits it right on the mark with his second guess: his friend, Spike. Tom gulps as he emerges from the wrapped up hammock, barking mad. He wraps him in his own collar and runs off. Spike easily frees himself by flexing and annihilates Tom (off camera).

The scene ends with Tom being Spike's slave as he has to fan Jerry, while being kicked by him.