The winter turned out to be very frosty, and the Free Wind, Bill Badger's barge, nicknamed Uncle Bill, got stuck in the ice of the canal. Uncle Bill and his assistant, a hedgehog named Buzzy-Buzzy, were delivering Christmas trees to local residents, but it now seemed highly unlikely that the barge would deliver the cargo on time. On the eve of Christmas, Uncle Bill and Buzzy-Puzzy will meet old friends and face a very dangerous enemy... This exciting story, which became the continuation of the action-packed adventure story "Bill Badger and the Free Wind", is written in the best traditions of the bestseller "Up the Folly and Back" : exciting adventures, unexpected plot twists and an incomparable atmosphere of a classic literary work of the “old school”, undeservedly forgotten and rediscovered.