Ray Ferrell

The Ricardos and Mertzes, impatient with their egg selling business, decide that they must trade in their 500 chicks for 200 egg laying hens. However, after a couple of weeks, these hens don't yield many eggs at all.

Wanting to replace their old furniture, Lucy gets an allowance of $500 from Ricky. Lucy goes overboard when she shops with their new neighbor Betty Ramsey, spending over three thousand dollars!

Ethel is jealous of Lucy's friendship with neighbor Betty Ramsey. Sensitive to this, Lucy decides that the three of them should have a nice lunch together. Although reticent at first, Ethel opens up to Betty upon hearing they are both from Albuquerque.

Word is received by telegraph that a cyclone is coming toward Dodge City.