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Molly becomes a surrogate mother to a flying creature that becomes large when it gets wet and small when it dries. This becomes more difficult when she has to protect the creature from the bloodthirsty poacher MacKnee.
In a stormy forest, the poacher MacKnee drives and forces an unseen creature into a large wooden box with his whip, believing that he's made his fortune with his catch.

At the Cunningham apartment, Rebecca walks in on Molly, much to her shock as her daughter has been helping herself into her mother's makeup. To her further chagrin, as well as Molly's disappointment, Rebecca had to change their plans to go out to the zoo for thatday. Rebecca decides to make amends by bringing Molly to her office at Higher for Hire with her, but is then distracted by a phone call, as well as Baloo's antics. Just to add to Rebecca's already-hectic day, her daughter played with the glue, the stamp and documented orders, with them stuck to her.

As it turns out, Baloo, aided by Kit and Wildcat, is helping a very loud and very bellicose MacKnee with his cargo when Molly tries to help. Unfortunately, his crate ends up breaking through part of the dock, releasing the creature within through a hole in the bottom of the crate. It makes its way, flying unnoticed, up to where Molly is sitting, on a post near the ramp of the dock. The huge crate falls down on MacKnee, leaving him shouting even more furiously. The creature, startled by the commotion, immediately starts hiding within Molly's overalls, causing her to have a fit of giggles. MacKnee is about to yell at the innocent tot, but when Rebecca comes in, he starts blustering at her instead! Molly sticks out her tongue at the nasty poacher for being mean to her mom (or his being mean, in general), reaches into her clothes, and after removing it, she soon befriends the tiny, scared creature, which she dubs as a "baby buffalo", in which it dives back in, cuddled up to her like a joey in a kangaroo's pouch. When she tries to share it with her mother and friends, the distracted adults are unable to pay attention to her new friend, to whom she names Henry, after a customer that her mother was speaking to on the phone.

Molly wanders off to play with Henry, but soon discovers that he is longing for his mother. Molly, in a bit of inspiration, decides to adopt the creature as ITS mother, but is then called to go home by her own mother.

Even at their apartment, Rebecca's time is fully occupied by her office work, leaving her oblivious to Molly caring for the creature. When Henry comes into contact with water, he grows to massive size, but returns to his diminutive stature after drying off. Still ignorant of what's truly going on, Rebecca becomes frustrated with Molly, and blames Henry's mess on her, but she then agrees to read her daughter Gladys and the Gorilla, her favorite bedtime storybook later on.

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