This is a sequel to Mr. Pumps the Popsicle Man but is is a more elaborate story, and belongs in that marginal group -- part picture-story-book, part read-aloud, part first readers. This time Mr. Pumps gets into a ball game, breaks a window and goes to jail because he cannot pay the fine, so his friends the children come to the rescue and get some business for him (and they too fall under the law).