Boys on Circle Ranch dissatisfied with the cooking, decide to have the cook discharged. The ranch owner sends Ike to town to bring a new cook back. In the meantime, the cook's daughter has arrived to pay her mother a visit. Ike mistakes her for the new cook and takes her back to the ranch. The boys, not knowing the relationship, try to make love to the girl and knock the old lady. The daughter objects, telling the boys the old cook is her mother. She leaves her three children and baby with Ike to take care of while she returns to help mother. The ranch hands now plot to get rid of the mother by kidnapping the baby. Ike returns to the house and baby is discovered missing. The hunt starts. Ranch hands in the meantime write a note and place it on the floor, telling them the baby will be returned when the mother leaves the ranch. The three children forgotten in the house, find a gun which is accidentally exploded. The old lady and daughter enter and find the children all lying in a bunk and imagine they have shot themselves. The daughter faints. The ranch hands think the mother has killed the daughter. They get a rope and decide to hang her; they drag her away. After much excitement the old lady is rescued, the baby is found and all ends well for Ike.
