Tom finds some Aboriginal relics his great-great-grandfather left in the attic. Among them is a boomerang, and Tom finds that while it is in flight everything living stands still, and when he catches it again all goes back to normal.
A jockey friend of the Thumbleton's has been forced into the position of choosing between deliberately losing a race or possibly endangering his family.
A visitor to the farm is fascinated with fires. He has a bucket of water thrown over him as a joke and the magic boomerang is used to place the bucket over his head.
Two friends set out on a fishing trip, Tom from the farm and his friend Pip who lives on the island. They are taken out with Pip's father's friend Duffy, who slowly and unwittingly reveals that he has ripped off Pip's father.