In order to match his friends' boasts, Franklin the turtle claims that he can swallow seventy-six flies in the blink of an eye, but then he has to prove it.
When Franklin loses the valentines he has made for his friends, he is heartbroken and worries that they won't want to give him any cards, but Franklin soon learns that he has very good friends.
A turtle afraid of small dark places, and therefore of crawling into his shell, asks a variety of animals for advice, only to find out that each has a fear of its. own.