Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head.

A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew.

The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.