Paddington loves reading comic books so Mr. Curry agrees to give him some old ones he has in his basement, for a price. They turn out to be quite valuable. Mr. Curry tries every trick in the book to get them back, but Paddington is happy to keep and read them.

It is Mr. and Mrs. Brown's anniversary and Paddington's noticed Mr. Brown is behaving rather oddly. Mr. Brown is pretending he does not remember so his gift will be that much more of a surprise. But when Paddington is sent to collect the gift, a piano, it will be a miracle if the whole town does not find out about it.