mickey is first seen reading "gulliver's travels" while the mice orphan children are pretending to be sailors. after poking mickey with a pin, mickey tries to make it up to them by retelling the liliput sequences of "gulliver's travels", pretending it was a real event that happened to him by portraying the role of gulliver. the story ends with mickey saving the town from a giant spider (pete). however, after telling the story, one of the children dangles a fake spider attached to a fishing rod, which scares mickey out of his wits.