... almost as hard as the one where Lumpy was menacing Beaver about a watch that he said Beaver had lost when he was the one who had lost it. In this case it is Aunt Martha the terrible who is the bully, but not in the traditional sense. Instead she kills people with kindness.
June's sister has had a baby and June is going to be with her for a few days. In her stead, June's Aunt Martha will keep house for Ward and the boys. But Martha has some old fashioned ideas. In particular she doesn't like how Beaver is dressed and so she goes out and buys him a suit with short pants and knee socks that makes him look like Little Lord Fauntleroy. When his classmates see him in this get-up and tease him a fight breaks out with Beaver throwing the first punch. But the teacher who breaks up the fight sympathizes with Beaver and his ridiculous get-up and just sends him home without disciplining him.
Wally comes to Ward that night and tells him about the short pants and the fight and so Ward has to come up with a diplomatic solution that does not hurt the feelings of June's Aunt Martha. How will he do that? Watch and find out.
Apparently June's mother died when she was young and her Aunt Martha filled in that role as best she could. Martha is haughty and inflexible and I can see how, when June goes on an occasional streak of being unreasonable, how that may have come from both nature and nurture having seen Aunt Martha in action.