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+Title: Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant
+       His Many Adventures
+
+Author: Richard Barnum
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+Illustrator: Harriet H. Tooker
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+Release Date: May 24, 2007 [EBook #21599]
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+
+<a name="Cover" id="Cover"></a><span class="toill"><a href="#Illus">Illus</a></span>
+<p class="center"><a name="image-1" id="image-1"><!-- Image 1 --></a>
+<img src="images/covers.jpg" height="543" width="400" alt="Book Cover" /></p>
+<p class="image"><a name="covert" id="covert" href="images/coverx.jpg" class="image">
+View larger image</a></p>
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg&nbsp;1]</a></span></p>
+
+<a name="Front" id="Front"></a><span class="toill"><a href="#Illus">Illus</a></span>
+<p class="center"><a name="image-2" id="image-2"><!-- Image 2 --></a>
+<img src="images/frontispieces.png" class="png" height="571" width="400" alt="Whooo-ish! went more water from Tun Tum's trunk on the blazing peanut wagon and straw." title="Whooo-ish! went more water from Tum Tum's trunk on the blazing peanut wagon and straw." /></p>
+<p class="image"><a name="Frontispiece" id="Frontispiece" href="images/frontispiecex.png" class="image">
+View larger image</a></p>
+
+<p class="center"><strong>Whooo-ish! went more water from Tum Tum's trunk on<br />
+the blazing peanut wagon and straw.</strong><br />
+<a href="#water">(Page 91)</a> <i>Frontispiece</i></p>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg&nbsp;2]</a></span></p>
+
+<h4><i>Kneetime Animal Stories</i></h4>
+<hr />
+<h1>TUM TUM,<br />
+THE JOLLY ELEPHANT</h1>
+
+<h2>HIS MANY ADVENTURES</h2>
+<br />
+<h3>BY</h3>
+<br />
+<h2>RICHARD BARNUM</h2>
+
+<p class="center">Author of "Squinty, the Comical Pig," "Slicko, the<br />
+Jumping Squirrel," "Mappo, the Merry Monkey,"<br />
+"Don, a Runaway Dog," etc.</p>
+
+<br />
+
+<h4><i>ILLUSTRATED BY</i></h4>
+
+<h3><i>HARRIET H. TOOKER</i></h3>
+
+<br />
+
+<h5>NEW YORK</h5>
+<h4>BARSE &amp; HOPKINS</h4>
+<h5>PUBLISHERS</h5>
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg&nbsp;3]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="bbox" style="width: 300px;">
+<h4>KNEETIME ANIMAL STORIES</h4>
+
+<h5>By Richard Barnum</h5>
+
+<h6><i>Large 12mo. Illustrated. Price per volume,<br />
+50 cents, postpaid</i></h6>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Squinty, The Comical Pig.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Slicko, The Jumping Squirrel.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Mappo, The Merry Monkey.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Tum Tum, The Jolly Elephant.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Don, A Runaway Dog.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Dido, The Dancing Bear.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Blackie, A Lost Cat.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Flop Ear, The Funny Rabbit.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Tinkle, The Trick Pony.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Lightfoot, The Leaping Goat.</span><br />
+(<i>Other volumes in preparation</i>)</p><br />
+<br />
+<h5>BARSE &amp; HOPKINS</h5>
+
+
+
+<p class="center">Publishers <span style="padding-left: 2em;">New York</span></p>
+</div>
+<hr />
+
+<p class="center">Copyright, 1915<br />
+by<br />
+Barse &amp; Hopkins</p>
+
+<p class="center"><i>Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant</i></p>
+
+<p class="center">VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY<br />
+BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg&nbsp;4]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr />
+<a name="toc" id="toc"></a>
+<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<div class="centered">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Table of Contents" style="width: 100%;">
+<tr>
+<td align='right' style="width: 10%;"><span class="smcap">Chapter</span></td>
+<td align='right' style="width: 80%;">&nbsp;</td>
+<td align='right' style="width: 10%;"><span class="smcap">Page</span></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>I</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum Tum Goes Swimming</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_I">7</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>II</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum tum is Caught</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_II">18</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>III</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum Tum and Mappo</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_III">31</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>IV</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum Tum in the Circus</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_IV">42</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>V</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum Tum and Don</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_V">49</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>VI</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum Tum and the Wagon</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_VI">60</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>VII</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum Tum Looks for Mappo</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_VII">69</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>VIII</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum Tum and the Fire</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_VIII">77</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>IX</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum Tum and the Balloons</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_IX">89</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>X</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum Tum and the Lemonade</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_X">97</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>XI</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum Tum and the Tiger</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_XI">110</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='right'>XII</td>
+<td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tum Tum's Brave Deed</span></td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#CHAPTER_XII">117</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg&nbsp;5]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg&nbsp;6]</a></span></p>
+
+<a name="Illus" id="Illus"></a>
+<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
+
+<div class="centered">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Table of Contents" style="width: 100%;">
+<tr>
+<td align='left'>Whooo-ish! went more water from Tum Tum's trunk<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;on the blazing peanut wagon and straw</td>
+<td align='right'><i><a href="#Front">Frontispiece</a></i></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='left' style="width: 80%;"><span class="smcap">&nbsp;</span></td>
+<td align='right' style="width: 20%;"><span class="smcap">Page</span></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align='left'>Through the forest jungle rushed the elephants, trampling<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;down the trees and bushes</td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#Forest">24</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='left'>He fell down on his knees, while Mappo sailed through the air</td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#Knees">41</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='left'>All this while Tum Tum was holding Don high in the air in his trunk</td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#Don">60</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='left'>The big hippopotamus wagon rolled out of the mud, and<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;on to the firm, hard road</td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#Hippo">84</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='left'>Right out of the ground the big elephant pulled the tree</td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#Tree">98</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td align='left'>He stayed under the tree where the tiger was, for he knew that soon<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;the circus men would come to hunt for Sharp Tooth</td>
+<td align='right'><a href="#Tiger">120</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h1><a name="TUM_TUM" id="TUM_TUM"></a>TUM TUM,<br />
+THE JOLLY ELEPHANT</h1>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg&nbsp;7]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM GOES SWIMMING</h3>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was a jolly elephant. I shall
+tell you that much at the start of this
+story, so you will not have to be guessing
+as to who Tum Tum was. Tum Tum was the
+jolliest elephant in the circus, but before that he
+was the jolliest elephant in the woods or jungle.</p>
+
+<p>In fact, Tum Tum was nearly always happy
+and jolly, and, though he had many troubles,
+in all the adventures that happened to him,
+still, he always tried to be good-natured over
+them.</p>
+
+<p>So I am going to tell you all about Tum Tum,
+and the wonderful things that happened to him.</p>
+
+<p>Once upon a time Tum Tum was a baby
+elephant, and lived away off in a far country
+called India, with many other elephants, little
+and big, in the jungle.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg&nbsp;8]</a></span>The jungle is just another name for woods,
+or forest, only the jungle is a very thick woods.
+The trees grow big and strong, and between
+them grow strong vines so that it is hard for
+any living creature except an elephant, or maybe
+a snake to push his way along. A snake can
+crawl on the ground under the vines, you know.</p>
+
+<p>Well, Tum Tum lived in this jungle, and
+with him lived his father and mother. His
+father was a great big elephant, named Tusky,
+and he was called this because he had two big,
+long, white teeth, called tusks, sticking out on
+either side of his long trunk, which was like a
+fat rubber hose.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum's mother was named Mrs. Tusky,
+but she did not have any long teeth like her
+husband. Perhaps she had had some once, and
+had lost them, breaking down a big tree, or something
+like that.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum had no brothers or sisters, but
+there were other little boy and girl elephants
+in the herd, or family of elephants, where he
+lived, and, altogether, he had a good time in
+the jungle, Tum Tum did.</p>
+
+<p>One day Tum Tum, who had been eating his
+dinner of leaves, with his father and mother,
+heard a loud trumpeting in the woods back of
+where he was standing. Trumpeting is the
+noise an elephant makes when he blows through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg&nbsp;9]</a></span>
+his long trunk, or nose. It is his way of speaking
+to another elephant.</p>
+
+<p>"Who's that calling?" asked Mrs. Tusky, of
+her husband.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, it sounds like some of the little boy
+elephants," said the old papa elephant, as he
+pulled up a tree by the roots, so he could the
+more easily take a bite from the tender top
+leaves.</p>
+
+<p>"I hope it doesn't mean any danger for us,"
+said Mrs. Tusky, looking at Tum Tum, who was
+busy finishing his dinner.</p>
+
+<p>Elephants, you know, no matter if they are
+big, are just as much afraid of danger as are
+other wild animals. Of course they are not so
+much afraid of the other beasts in the jungles,
+for the elephant can fight almost anything,
+even a lion or a tiger.</p>
+
+<p>But an elephant is afraid of the black men,
+or natives, who live in the jungle, and an elephant
+is also afraid of the white hunters, who
+come into the big forest from time to time.</p>
+
+<p>"I hope no hunters are about, to make one
+of our elephant friends trumpet that way," said
+Mrs. Tusky, speaking in a way elephants have.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, no, don't be afraid," said her husband,
+eating away at his tree leaves. "There is no
+danger." But, as he said this, he put up his
+long trunk-nose, and carefully sniffed the air.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg&nbsp;10]</a></span>
+That is the way animals have of telling if danger
+is near. They do it by smelling as well as
+by listening and seeing. Only one cannot see
+very far in the jungle, as the trees are so thick.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Tusky also lifted up his big ears, about
+as large as ten palm-leaf fans, and listened for
+any sounds of danger. All he heard was the
+crashing of tree branches and bushes, as some
+of the other elephants, farther off in the jungle,
+pushed their way about eating their dinners.</p>
+
+<p>Then, suddenly, some elephant called, trumpeting
+through his trunk:</p>
+
+<p>"Tum Tum! Hello, Tum Tum! Can't you
+come out and play?"</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, it's some of your little elephant friends,"
+said Mr. Tum Tum, to the little boy elephant.
+I say "little," though Tum Tum was really a
+pretty good size. He was much larger than a
+horse.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, may I go and play with them?" asked
+Tum Tum, just as any of you might have done.</p>
+
+<p>Of course Tum Tum did not speak in words,
+as you or I would have done. Instead he spoke
+in elephant language, though he could also
+speak and understand other animal talk. And
+he could also understand man-talk, just as, in
+my other books, I have told you how dogs, cats,
+pigs and monkeys can understand what we say
+to them, though they cannot talk to us.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg&nbsp;11]</a></span>"May I go out and play?" asked Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, I guess so," answered his father. "But
+do not go too far away. And you must listen
+for the sound of the danger trumpet from Mr.
+Boom. When he signals that there is danger,
+you must run back, for that will mean we shall
+have to go off farther in the jungle, and hide."</p>
+
+<p>"I'll be careful," promised Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>Elephants in the jungle live in big families,
+or herds. At the head is the largest elephant
+of them all, the leader. He is always on the
+lookout for danger, and when he sees, hears or
+smells any, he gives a signal, or trumpet,
+through his trunk, and then all the elephants
+run away and hide.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum, the jolly elephant, stopped eating
+his dinner, for he had had enough, anyhow, and
+off through the jungle he crashed. He did not
+wait to go by the path, for he was so big and
+strong. Even though he was a little chap, as
+yet, he could crash through big thick bushes, and
+even knock over pretty large trees, if they were
+in his way.</p>
+
+<p>"I'm coming!" called Tum Tum to his play-fellows,
+the other elephants. "I'm coming!"</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum came to a tree that stood in his
+way. He could just as well have gone around
+it, but that was not what he was used to. He
+lowered his head, and banged into it.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg&nbsp;12]</a></span>"Crash!" over went the tree, broken off
+short.</p>
+
+<p>"I'll soon be with you!" Tum Tum called
+again, for he still could not see his little friends.
+"Who's there?" he asked.</p>
+
+<p>Back through the jungle came the answer:</p>
+
+<p>"We're all here&mdash;Whoo-ee, Gumble-umble,
+Thorny and Zunga!"</p>
+
+<p>These were the names of the elephants with
+whom Tum Tum played. Whoo-ee was a boy
+elephant, and he had that name, because he used
+to make a funny sound, almost like his name,
+when he whistled through his trunk. Gumble-umble
+was another boy elephant, and he was
+called that because he grumbled, or found fault,
+so often.</p>
+
+<p>Thorny was a girl elephant, and she got her
+name, because she was so fond of eating the
+tender, juicy leaves from the thorn tree. Zunga
+was another girl elephant, and she was just called
+that name because her mother thought it sounded
+nice&mdash;just as Tum Tum's mamma thought his
+name was the nicest one in the jungle.</p>
+
+<p>"I'm coming!" trumpeted Tum Tum, and then
+he came to another tree that stood in his path.</p>
+
+<p>"I guess I'll have to knock this out of the
+way," he thought to himself, and he lowered his
+strong head and started toward it.</p>
+
+<p>"Crack!" went his head against the tree, but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg&nbsp;13]</a></span>
+the tree did not break. It was very strong.</p>
+
+<p>"Humph!" thought Tum Tum. "I guess I'll
+have to pull you up by the roots if I can't break
+you off."</p>
+
+<p>So he wound his trunk around the tree. Then
+he pulled and he pulled and he pulled some
+more until, all of a sudden, the tree came up by
+the roots.</p>
+
+<p>It came up so quickly that Tum Tum tumbled
+over backwards, head over heels.</p>
+
+<p>"Smash!" down in the bushes went Tum Tum,
+holding up the tree in his trunk.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! Ha!" came an elephant laugh from the
+jungle in front of Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, just look at him!" a voice called.</p>
+
+<p>"What happened, Tum Tum?" asked a third
+elephant.</p>
+
+<p>"Are you playing one of your tricks?" some
+one else wanted to know.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum looked up from where he lay on his
+back in the bushes. He saw Whoo-ee, Gumble-umble,
+Thorny and Zunga looking at him, their
+mouths wide open, laughing.</p>
+
+<p>And then, instead of getting angry, and being
+cross, Tum Tum just laughed himself, such a
+jolly laugh!</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! Ha!" he giggled. "I&mdash;I fell over
+backward pulling up this tree. Did you see
+me?"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg&nbsp;14]</a></span>"Did we see you? Well, I guess we did!"
+cried Whoo-ee.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, maybe you did, but I didn't," complained
+Gumble-umble. "Zunga got right in
+my way, when I wanted to look."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, I'm sorry," said Zunga. "I didn't mean
+to."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, don't mind Gumble-umble," said Tum
+Tum, with another jolly laugh. "He's always
+finding fault. I'll pull up another tree, and fall
+again, Gumble-umble, so you can see me do it,
+if you like."</p>
+
+<p>"No, don't. You might hurt yourself," said
+Thorny, the other girl elephant.</p>
+
+<p>"Pooh!" cried Tum Tum. "I'm not afraid!"</p>
+
+<p>"Well, never mind about pulling up more
+trees now," said Whoo-ee. "We called you to
+come out, and have some fun with us. We are
+going swimming."</p>
+
+<p>"Where?" asked Tum Tum, as he got up off
+his back, and blew some dust over himself to
+keep away the flies.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, we're going down in the river," said
+Zunga. "It's so hot to-day, that a nice bath will
+cool us off. Come on."</p>
+
+<p>"I'd better ask my mother," said Tum Tum.
+"I didn't know you were going swimming, when
+you called for me to come and play with you.
+I'll go ask her."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg&nbsp;15]</a></span>"All right, we'll wait for you. Only don't
+be all day," said Gumble-umble. "We want to
+go in the water before night."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, you mustn't mind him," laughed
+Whoo-ee. "I don't know what's the matter
+with him to-day; he's always finding fault. Did
+you get a thorn in your foot, Gumble, that makes
+you so cross?"</p>
+
+<p>"No, I didn't," answered the other boy elephant.
+"But I don't want to stand here all the
+afternoon in a hot jungle, waiting for Tum
+Tum."</p>
+
+<p>"I won't be long," promised the jolly elephant.
+He hurried back through the woods to where
+his father and mother were still eating.</p>
+
+<p>"Mother, may I go in swimming?" he asked,
+as he came to where Mrs. Tusky stood.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, but don't go so far, that you can't hear
+any calls that may come from Mr. Boom.
+There's no telling when the hunters may find
+us."</p>
+
+<p>"I'll listen, and be careful," said Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>Back he crashed through the jungle, and soon
+he and his elephant friends were on their way to
+the river, that was not far from where the herd
+of elephants was feeding.</p>
+
+<p>"There's the river!" suddenly called Whoo-ee,
+as he caught sight of the sparkling water through
+the trees.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg&nbsp;16]</a></span>"Let's see who'll be the first one in!" called
+Whoo-ee, as he began to run.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, don't leave us behind," begged Thorny
+and Zunga.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, that's the way with girls&mdash;always making
+a fuss!" complained Gumble-umble. "Why
+can't you run like we boys do?"</p>
+
+<p>"Because you're bigger and stronger than we
+are," said Zunga.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, we're not going to wait for you," said
+Gumble-umble.</p>
+
+<p>"Never mind, I don't care whether I'm first
+in the water or not," said Tum Tum. "I'll stay
+with you, Thorny, and Zunga."</p>
+
+<p>"Isn't Tum Tum nice?" whispered Zunga to
+Thorny, as they went along through the jungle.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," said Thorny.</p>
+
+<p>Whoo-ee and Gumble-umble hurried on
+through the woods, and Whoo-ee was the first
+to splash into the water.</p>
+
+<p>"I beat!" he cried.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, I'd have been first only I stumbled
+over a tree root," said Gumble-umble.</p>
+
+<p>He was always finding fault, it seemed.</p>
+
+<p>Into the water splashed the five elephant children.
+They went out where it was about deep
+enough to come up to their ears, and then they
+sucked water up in their trunks and sprayed it
+over their backs, to drive away the flies and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg&nbsp;17]</a></span>
+gnats that bit them. Then they swam out into
+deep water, and rolled and tumbled about, having
+great fun. They splashed each other,
+squirted water all over, and soon were as cool
+as cucumbers on ice.</p>
+
+<p>All at once, through the jungle, there sounded
+a loud trumpeting.</p>
+
+<p>"Hark!" cried Whoo-ee, as he stopped squirting
+water on Thorny. "What's that?"</p>
+
+<p>"It's Mr. Boom signaling that there's danger!"
+cried Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></span>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg&nbsp;18]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM IS CAUGHT</h3>
+
+<p>Tum Tum, and the other elephants who
+were in swimming, made no more
+noise than a fly walking up the window.
+They all kept quiet and listened.</p>
+
+<p>Through the jungle again sounded the trumpet
+call:</p>
+
+<p>"Umph! Umph! Boom! Boom! Toom!"</p>
+
+<p>"That sure means danger!" cried Tum Tum.
+"Come on! We had better go back to where
+our fathers and mothers are."</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed we had!" said Thorny, as she and
+Zunga waded to the shore, water dripping from
+them.</p>
+
+<p>"That's always the way!" complained Gumble-umble.
+"Just as we are having fun, something
+has to happen."</p>
+
+<p>"Look here!" exclaimed Whoo-ee, "you don't
+want to be caught in a trap, do you?"</p>
+
+<p>"Of course not," said Gumble-umble.</p>
+
+<p>"And you don't want a hunter to shoot you,
+or to carry you away far off somewhere, do
+you?"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg&nbsp;19]</a></span>"You know I don't," and Gumble-umble did
+not speak quite so crossly this time.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, then," said Whoo-ee, "let's do as Tum
+Tum is doing, and start for home. There must
+be some danger, or Mr. Boom wouldn't have
+called to us that way."</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed he wouldn't," said Tum Tum, and
+he did not laugh in his jolly way now. "My
+mother told me to be sure and listen for a call
+from Mr. Boom. She said he would be looking
+for danger, and when he called, I was to
+hurry home."</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was out on the bank of the river
+now. Gumble-umble was the last one of the
+elephants to come from the swimming pool.</p>
+
+<p>"Let's hurry," said Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"That's what I say!" cried Thorny. "I don't
+want to be caught by some hunter."</p>
+
+<p>The elephant children knew what hunters
+were, for their fathers and mothers had often
+told them about the natives who tried to catch
+elephants. Indeed, some of the older elephants
+had more than once been caught in traps, but
+they had gotten out.</p>
+
+<p>Without stopping to put on any clothes, for
+of course elephants do not wear any, Tum
+Tum and the others hurried off through the
+jungle toward where the rest of the herd was
+feeding. Several times as they hastened along,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg&nbsp;20]</a></span>
+they could hear Mr. Boom trumpeting, and it
+sounded as though he said:</p>
+
+<p>"Hurry along! Hurry along! There's danger!
+Danger!"</p>
+
+<p>And Tum Tum and the others did hurry, you
+may be sure of that.</p>
+
+<p>Before the elephant children reached the
+place where they had left the herd feeding, Tum
+Tum saw something pushing through the jungle
+toward them.</p>
+
+<p>"Look out!" he warned his playmates.
+"Something is coming!"</p>
+
+<p>The five elephants stopped short, and were
+beginning to get afraid when, all at once, Tum
+Tum's mother burst through the bushes and
+came up to him.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, I was so frightened!" she said, speaking
+through her trunk. "I thought you were never
+coming!"</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, we heard Mr. Boom," said Tum Tum,
+"and we came on as soon as we could. But
+what's the matter, mamma?"</p>
+
+<p>"Plenty is the matter, or, rather, is going to
+be, unless we can get away," said the mamma
+elephant. "A big band of hunters is in the
+jungle, and they are coming this way."</p>
+
+<p>"Did you see them?" asked Whoo-ee.</p>
+
+<p>"No, indeed! If we waited until they were
+close enough for us elephants to see them, they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg&nbsp;21]</a></span>
+would be so close, that we could not get away.
+Some monkeys brought word that the hunters
+were on the march. So we are going to start
+at once and go afar off, into a deep, dark part
+of the jungle, where they cannot find us."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, we had a swim, anyhow," said Tum
+Tum. "I'm hungry, mamma. Have we time
+to eat?"</p>
+
+<p>"No, indeed," said the lady elephant. "We'll
+just have to eat as we go along. You children
+had better go to your fathers and mothers," she
+said to Whoo-ee, Gumble-umble, Thorny and
+Zunga. "They are, very likely, looking for
+you."</p>
+
+<p>So the four friends of Tum Tum started off,
+and soon the whole herd of elephants was moving
+off through the jungle, led by Mr. Boom,
+who had heard of the danger from a monkey
+friend.</p>
+
+<p>All that day the herd of elephants kept on,
+crashing their way through the jungle. They
+did not follow any path, but made one for themselves.
+Through the thick, strong vines they
+pushed their way, breaking down trees, or pulling
+them up by their roots. Nothing could stop
+the elephants when they were running away
+from danger.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, dear! This is no fun! I'm tired! I'm
+not going to run any more!" complained Gum<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg&nbsp;22]</a></span>ble-umble.
+"I don't believe there is any danger,
+anyhow."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, but there must be," said Tum Tum, who,
+with Whoo-ee, was hurrying along beside his
+play-fellow. "Otherwise they wouldn't make
+us go so fast," and he pointed with his trunk to
+Mr. Boom, and some of the older men elephants,
+who were leading the herd.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, I'm not going to go so fast," said
+Gumble-umble. "I'm going to stop and have
+a rest."</p>
+
+<p>"No, you're not!" exclaimed his father, who
+came up behind Gumble-umble, just then.
+"I'm sorry," the papa elephant said, "but you
+must keep on. It would never do to stop now, or
+the hunters would get us. Here, I'll push you
+along," and with his strong head, Gumble-umble's
+father shoved his son along, whether
+Gumble-umble wanted to go or not.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum needed no pushing. He was glad
+enough to hurry along as fast as he could. So
+were the other small elephants, for they did not
+want to be caught.</p>
+
+<p>Then, after a while, Mr. Boom signaled that
+they were far enough off now, and need not
+hurry any more. They were safe, at least for
+a time.</p>
+
+<p>"And I'm glad of it!" exclaimed Gumble-umble.
+"I can't walk another step," and he lay<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg&nbsp;23]</a></span>
+down to rest. All the elephants were tired, and
+hungry. But they had come to a place where
+there was plenty of food and water.</p>
+
+<p>Soon they were eating, drinking and getting
+ready to spend the night in the jungle, for it
+was now almost dark. Tum Tum found a nice
+cozy place between his mother and father, and
+soon he was sound asleep.</p>
+
+<p>For some time after this, the herd of elephants
+was kept on the move by the hunters. Then,
+finally, the men with guns were left so far behind
+that there was no more danger for them.
+Then all the elephants were glad. They did
+not have to run through the jungle any more,
+and they had time to eat and drink.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum and his friends went in swimming
+many times, and Tum Tum grew so fat and
+large and strong, that he was soon the largest
+of all the children elephants in the herd. In
+fact, he was almost as large as his father and
+mother, and of all the elephants he was the
+strongest, except only Mr. Boom. No elephant
+was stronger or braver than Mr. Boom. That
+was what made him the leader.</p>
+
+<p>One day, when Tum Tum had grown to be
+a big, fine strong elephant, though as jolly as
+ever, something happened to him. I shall tell
+you all about it now.</p>
+
+<p>The herd of elephants was in the forest as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg&nbsp;24]</a></span>
+before. They were eating away, when, all of
+a sudden, Mr. Boom gave the signal with his
+trunk.</p>
+
+<p>"Danger! Danger!" he cried, in his deep,
+booming voice, that was like distant thunder.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, we've got to run again!" cried Mr.
+Tusky, who was the father of Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>It is a good thing elephants do not live in
+houses, and also good that they have nothing to
+move with them, when they go from place to
+place, or they would have trouble, because they
+have to run away from danger so often.</p>
+
+<p>Once again they were on the march, with Mr.
+Boom in the lead. Now Tum Tum was so big
+and strong, that he was allowed to march at the
+head of the herd with Mr. Boom.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, but I am afraid to have him there," said
+Mrs. Tusky to her husband.</p>
+
+<p>"Nonsense!" exclaimed the papa elephant.
+"He must learn to take his place. Some day
+he will be the leader of the herd, and will warn
+the others of danger."</p>
+
+<p><a name="jungle" id="jungle"></a>Through the forest jungle rushed the elephants,
+trampling down the trees and bushes.
+Behind them could be heard the shouts of the
+hunters, and the firing of guns. There was also
+the noise of big wooden and tin drums being
+beaten, and horns being blown. There was also
+the trumpeting of other elephants&mdash;tame elephants.
+For hunters use tame elephants to help
+them catch the wild ones.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg&nbsp;25]</a></span></p>
+
+<a name="Forest" id="Forest"></a><span class="toill"><a href="#Illus">Illus</a></span>
+<p class="center"><a name="image-3" id="image-3"><!-- Image 3 --></a>
+<img src="images/illus-026s.png" class="png" height="677" width="400" alt="Through the forest jungle rushed the elephants, trampling down the trees and bushes. Page 24." title="Through the forest jungle rushed the elephants, trampling down the trees and bushes. Page 24." /></p>
+<p class="image"><a name="bush" id="bush" href="images/illus-026x.png" class="image">
+View larger image</a></p>
+
+<p class="center"><strong>Through the forest jungle rushed the elephants, trampling<br />
+down the trees and bushes.</strong><br />
+<a href="#jungle">Page 24</a></p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg&nbsp;26]</a></span><br /></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg&nbsp;27]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Wait! don't run away! You will not be
+hurt!" called the tame elephants to Tum Tum,
+and the other wild ones.</p>
+
+<p>But the wild elephants did not want to be
+caught. They did not know they would be
+kindly treated by their masters. All the wild
+elephants wanted to do was to get away. So
+with Tum Tum and Mr. Boom at their head,
+away they rushed through the jungle.</p>
+
+<p>All at once the rushing herd of wild elephants
+came to a fence in the jungle. It was a strong
+fence, made of big bamboo trees stuck in the
+ground. It was such a strong fence that even
+Mr. Boom, try as he did, could not break it
+down. When he found that after one or two
+blows from his head would not break the fence,
+he called out to the other elephants:</p>
+
+<p>"Never mind the fence! We can't break
+through it, so we'll run along beside it. Maybe
+there'll be a hole in it somewhere."</p>
+
+<p>So the elephants rushed through the jungle,
+alongside of the fence, just as you might do,
+until you came to a gate, or hole. That was
+what Mr. Boom was looking for&mdash;a hole in the
+fence.</p>
+
+<p>But he did not see any. In fact, this fence<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg&nbsp;28]</a></span>
+was a trap, and soon Mr. Boom and the other
+elephants knew this.</p>
+
+<p>"Run away from the fence! Run over this
+way!" called Mr. Boom.</p>
+
+<p>The elephants ran, but soon they saw another
+fence in front of them&mdash;a fence as strong as the
+first one. Mr. Boom and some of the strong
+elephants, including Tum Tum, tried to break
+it down, but they could not. If they had all
+gotten together, and pushed at one spot, they
+might have broken it, but they pushed in different
+places, and the fence held them back.</p>
+
+<p>"Never mind!" called Mr. Boom. "Maybe
+this fence has a hole in it. We'll run along it
+and find out."</p>
+
+<p>"Why can't we turn around and go back?"
+asked Gumble-umble of Tum Tum, behind
+whom he was now running.</p>
+
+<p>"Because the hunters are behind us," said
+Tum Tum. "If we turned back, they would
+surely catch us. The only thing to do is to run
+on."</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was beginning to be a smart elephant,
+you see. He knew many things about
+danger. But, had he only known it, there was
+something he did not know&mdash;and this was that
+he and the others were, even then, running right
+into a trap.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg&nbsp;29]</a></span>On and on rushed the elephants. The two
+lines of fences that had been far apart, were
+now so close together that they could both easily
+be seen at once. It was like going down a long
+lane, in the cow pasture, with a fence on either
+side.</p>
+
+<p>Then Mr. Boom saw the danger.</p>
+
+<p>"Go back! Go back!" called the big leader
+elephant. "Go back!"</p>
+
+<p>But it was too late. Right in front of the
+elephants was a big round place, like a baseball
+park, with a high fence all around it&mdash;a
+very strong fence. There was a gate by which
+the elephants could be driven into this park,
+only it was a trap, and not a park. And there
+was no way out of it. The fence ran all about
+it, except this one hole. And through that hole
+the elephants were being driven.</p>
+
+<p>"Go back! Go back!" cried Tum Tum, waving
+his trunk at the other elephants as Mr. Boom
+was doing.</p>
+
+<p>But the elephants were afraid to go back because
+the hunters were rushing up behind them.
+The hunters had driven the elephants into the
+trap, and were going to keep them there.</p>
+
+<p>Up rode the hunters on tame elephants. Into
+the trap they drove the wild ones, Tum Tum
+and all the others.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg&nbsp;30]</a></span>"Alas! We are caught!" cried Mr. Boom.
+"Come, let us see if we cannot break through
+this fence!"</p>
+
+<p>He rushed at it with his big head, but the
+fence was too strong for him.</p>
+
+<p>Into the midst of the wild elephants came the
+tame ones, with the hunter-men on their backs.
+The tame elephants talked to the wild ones.</p>
+
+<p>"Be quiet!" said the tame elephants. "You
+will not be hurt! See us! We were once like
+you, but we were caught and we like it. Be
+quiet!"</p>
+
+<p>Some of the elephants quieted down, but
+others rushed about, trying to break through the
+fence. Tum Tum was one of these. Then, all
+at once two tame elephants, with men on their
+backs, rushed at Tum Tum. Chains and ropes
+were thrown over his back, and around his legs.
+The chains and ropes were pulled tight.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was caught in the trap.</p>
+
+<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></span>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg&nbsp;31]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM AND MAPPO</h3>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was not now such a jolly
+elephant as he had been the day he
+went in swimming, or as happy as
+when he pulled up the tree, fell over backward,
+and laughed at his own joke. No, indeed!
+Tum Tum was feeling very unhappy now.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, mamma!" Tum Tum cried. "Oh, papa!
+What has happened?"</p>
+
+<p>Mr. and Mrs. Tusky were not able to answer
+Tum Tum. They, too, as well as nearly all the
+other elephants, had been caught in the trap.
+Some of them, like Tum Tum, were held fast
+with chains and ropes, and others were trying
+to batter down the fence of the trap with their
+heads. But they felt that they could not do it,
+as the fence was too strong.</p>
+
+<p>"Let me go! Let me loose!" cried Tum Tum
+in his elephant language.</p>
+
+<p>Of course the hunter men, who had taken
+Tum Tum and the others prisoners, did not understand
+this talk, but they could see that Tum<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg&nbsp;32]</a></span>
+Tum was very strong, and might break loose.</p>
+
+<p>"Better put a couple more chains on that fellow,"
+said one of the hunters to another.</p>
+
+<p>"I guess so," agreed the second hunter.
+"That is the finest and biggest elephant we have
+caught in this herd."</p>
+
+<p>At first Tum Tum thought they must be
+speaking of Mr. Boom, who surely was the
+largest and strongest elephant in the jungle.
+But, when Tum Tum looked around, Mr. Boom
+was not to be seen. He had gotten away. He
+had turned, and run out of the trap, and he was
+so big and strong that even the tame elephants,
+with the hunters on their backs, could not stop
+him. Away he rushed into the jungle. But he
+was very sad, for he alone, of all the herd, had
+escaped.</p>
+
+<p>"I wonder of whom they can be speaking, so
+big and strong," thought Tum Tum. He saw
+two tame elephants, with hunters on their backs,
+and carrying chains, coming toward him.</p>
+
+<p>"Why&mdash;why, they must mean me!" said Tum
+Tum to himself. He stopped trying to break
+down the fence, which the hunters had built as
+a trap, and waited.</p>
+
+<p>"Look out for him," said one of the men.
+"He looks dangerous. He looks like a bad elephant."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg&nbsp;33]</a></span>Tum Tum was not a bad elephant. He was
+very strong, but he was not bad.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, mamma, what shall I do?" cried Tum
+Tum, as he saw the tame elephants, with chains,
+coming closer to him.</p>
+
+<p>For all his great strength, Tum Tum was yet
+only a boy elephant. He was not very wise.
+He did not know what to do.</p>
+
+<p>"Listen," said Tum Tum's father. "You are
+now the leader of the herd, Tum Tum. Mr.
+Boom is gone, and I am too old to be the leader.
+So you must be. We elephants will do as you
+do. If you can break down the fence, and get
+away from the hunters, we will follow you."</p>
+
+<p>"I will try, once more, to break down the
+fence," said Tum Tum. "Let some of the
+strong, young elephants come to help me.
+Come, Whoo-ee&mdash;come, Gumble-umble! We
+will smash down the fence!"</p>
+
+<p>But one of the tame elephants, who heard
+what Tum Tum said, called to him, and spoke:</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, brother. Do not break down the
+fence."</p>
+
+<p>"Why not?" asked Tum Tum, who could
+easily understand the language of the tame elephant.
+"Why should I not break the fence,
+and let my friends, and my father and mother,
+out of this trap. Why not?"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg&nbsp;34]</a></span>"Because," answered the tame elephant, with
+the chains, "you cannot do it. Already you are
+held with ropes, and soon we will put more
+chains on you, so that you cannot move."</p>
+
+<p>"And why would you&mdash;you who are elephants
+like ourselves&mdash;why would you do this to us,
+who never harmed you?" asked Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Because it is for your good," said the tame
+elephant. "The white hunters are very strong.
+You may get away from them now, but they will
+come after you again. It is better to give in
+now. If you are good, and do not try to break
+down the fence, you will wear no chains."</p>
+
+<p>"But what will happen to us&mdash;to me and my
+father and mother?" asked Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"You will be put to work, piling teak logs
+in the woods," said the tame elephant. "You
+will have enough to eat, you will have shelter
+from the rain and the flies. You will have
+water to drink and to wash in. It is a good life.
+I like it."</p>
+
+<p>"Is that all that will happen to me?" asked
+Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Perhaps not," answered the tame elephant.
+"You may be sent far across the big water, in
+a house that floats, and go, as other elephants
+have gone, to a circus, or menagerie, for the boys
+and girls to look at, and feed peanuts to."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg&nbsp;35]</a></span>"What are peanuts?" asked Tum Tum, who
+was hungry.</p>
+
+<p>"I do not know, never having eaten any,"
+said the tame elephant. "But one of my
+brothers, who was in a circus in a far off land,
+and who came back here, said they were very
+good. Now shall we put the chains on you&mdash;I
+and my tame brothers&mdash;or will you be quiet&mdash;you
+and the others?"</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum thought for a minute. After all
+he was caught, and it would be hard to get away,
+even if he were the strongest elephant in the
+herd, now that Mr. Boom was gone. Then, too,
+it might be nice in a circus, and Tum Tum certainly
+wanted to see what peanuts were like.</p>
+
+<p>"I&mdash;I will be good, tame brother," he said.
+"You need not put the chains and ropes on me."</p>
+
+<p>"You are wise, Tum Tum," said the tame elephant.
+"We will put no chains on you. And
+about the others?" he asked.</p>
+
+<p>"The others will do as I do," said Tum Tum.
+"I am the leader now."</p>
+
+<p>"Good!" trumpeted the tame elephant, whose
+name was Dunda. "My brother from the
+jungle is wise."</p>
+
+<p>So Tum Tum had no more chains put on his
+legs or back, and those that were on him, with
+the ropes, were taken off.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg&nbsp;36]</a></span>"So we are not to try to break from the trap?"
+asked Whoo-ee.</p>
+
+<p>"No, for we will be well treated here," said
+Tum Tum, "and some of us may go to a circus."</p>
+
+<p>"What is a circus?" asked Zunga.</p>
+
+<p>"It is a place where boys and girls look at
+us, and feed us peanuts," answered Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"I will not go to any circus!" cried Gumble-umble.
+"I am going to break out of this trap!"</p>
+
+<p>"You must not!" cried Tum Tum. "I have
+said that we would all be good, and I am the
+leader."</p>
+
+<p>"You cannot lead me!" trumpeted Gumble-umble,
+and he rushed at the fence of the stockade,
+or trap. But before he could reach it, two
+tame elephants rushed at him, and Gumble-umble
+was soon bound with strong chains and
+ropes, so that he could hardly move.</p>
+
+<p>"It is all your fault!" he cried to Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"No, it is your own," said Gumble-umble's
+papa. "Now you must quiet down and be a
+good elephant. We are caught, we can go no
+more to the jungle, but perhaps it is best for
+us."</p>
+
+<p>So Tum Tum and the wild elephants were
+thus caught.</p>
+
+<p>For a time the herd of wild elephants was
+kept inside the fence. They were given good
+things to eat, and plenty of water to drink, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg&nbsp;37]</a></span>
+to blow over themselves with their trunks, to
+cool off. They did not try to get away, though
+once, in the night, Mr. Boom came as close to
+the outside of the trap, or stockade, as he dared,
+and trumpeted, trying to call his herd back to
+him. But they would not go. They were beginning
+to like it, with the tame elephants.</p>
+
+<p>In a little while all the wild elephants, Tum
+Tum included, were quite tame. Then they
+were taken out, a few at a time, out to the forest,
+and shown how to pile up the heavy logs of
+teakwood, which is used for building ships, and
+sometimes for making tables and chairs.</p>
+
+<p>The tame elephants showed the wild ones how
+to carry the logs on their tusks, or in their trunks,
+and how to pile them up as neatly as you can
+pile up your building blocks.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum learned to do this, and also how
+to push heavy wagons about with his head. He
+also learned much of the man-talk, so that his
+driver, or <i>mahoot</i>, as he is called, could, by a
+few words, make Tum Tum understand just
+what was wanted.</p>
+
+<p>One day Tum Tum was taken away from the
+rest of the herd, and he did not even have a
+chance to say good-by. He was led up what
+seemed to be a little bridge, and Tum Tum was
+afraid it would fall with him. But it did not.</p>
+
+<p>Next he walked down into a dark place, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg&nbsp;38]</a></span>
+he found other elephants there. Some of them
+he knew.</p>
+
+<p>"Where are we, and where are we going?"
+he asked.</p>
+
+<p>"We are in a ship, and we are being taken
+across the ocean to a circus," answered Whoo-ee,
+who was one of the elephants in the dark place,
+which was the inside of a steamship.</p>
+
+<p>"A circus! Good!" cried Tum Tum. "Now
+I shall know how a peanut tastes."</p>
+
+<p>The ship began to move and rock. It rocked
+and swayed for many days, for it was on the
+ocean. And then, one day, a sailor came down
+to see the elephants. He brought with him a
+queer little animal, with thick, brown hair.
+And this animal chattered in jungle talk.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! I seem to know who that is!" thought
+Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Chatter! Chatter! Chat! Chur-r-r-r-r-r!"
+went the little brown-haired animal, as he
+sprang from the arms of the sailor.</p>
+
+<p>"Umph! Umph!" trumpeted Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>Then the little brown monkey, for such it was,
+gave a jump from the arms of the sailor, and
+landed up on the back of the elephant.</p>
+
+<p>"Hello, Tum Tum!" cried the monkey.</p>
+
+<p>"Why, it's Mappo!" exclaimed Tum Tum.
+"How did you get here?"</p>
+
+<p>"I was caught in a net, when I was eating<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg&nbsp;39]</a></span>
+some cocoanut," the monkey said. I have told
+you how that happened in a book called,
+"Mappo, the Merry Monkey."</p>
+
+<a name="Knees" id="Knees"></a><span class="toill"><a href="#Illus">Illus</a></span>
+<p class="center"><a name="image-4" id="image-4"><!-- Image 4 --></a>
+<img src="images/illus-040s.png" class="png" height="669" width="400" alt="He fell down on his knees, while Mappo sailed through the air. Page 41." title="He fell down on his knees, while Mappo sailed through the air. Page 41." /></p>
+<p class="image"><a name="air" id="air" href="images/illus-040x.png" class="image">
+View larger image</a></p>
+
+<p class="center"><strong>He fell down on his knees, while Mappo<br /> sailed through the air.</strong><br /> <a href="#fell">Page 41</a></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg&nbsp;40]</a></span><br /></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg&nbsp;41]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Caught in a net, eh?" said Tum Tum.
+"That is too bad. I was caught myself. But
+where are you going?"</p>
+
+<p>"To a circus," answered Mappo.</p>
+
+<p>"So am I!" cried Tum Tum. "This is fine!
+We'll be in the circus together!"</p>
+
+<p>The monkey and the elephant were good
+friends, for they had known each other in the
+jungle, Tum Tum often having passed under
+the tree where Mappo's home was.</p>
+
+<p>The sailor who had brought Mappo down to
+see the elephants, smiled as he saw Tum Tum
+making friends with him.</p>
+
+<p>"I guess I'll leave them together," said the
+sailor.</p>
+
+<p>So Mappo went to sleep on Tum Tum's big
+back.</p>
+
+<p>The monkey had not slept very long, before
+he was suddenly awakened, by finding himself
+almost sliding off.</p>
+
+<p>"What is the matter, Tum Tum?" asked
+Mappo.</p>
+
+<p>"The ship is trying to stand on its head, I
+think," said the elephant. "Oh, here I go!" and
+<a name="fell" id="fell"></a>he fell down on his knees, while Mappo sailed
+through the air and fell on a pile of hay.</p>
+
+<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></span>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg&nbsp;42]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM IN THE CIRCUS</h3>
+
+<p>With Mappo chattering in his monkey
+language, and the elephants in the
+lower part of the ship trumpeting
+through their trunks, there was so much noise,
+that it is no wonder many of the animals were
+frightened.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, what is it? What is it?" Mappo chattered.</p>
+
+<p>"I don't know," answered Tum Tum, "unless
+the hunters are coming after us again," and,
+raising his trunk, he gave the call of danger,
+as he had heard Mr. Boom, the big leader elephant,
+give it in the jungle.</p>
+
+<p>"Hush! Be quiet!" called an old elephant
+near Tum Tum. "Why do you call that way,
+brother?" he asked in elephant language.</p>
+
+<p>"There is danger," replied Tum Tum. "I
+must tell the others to get out of here."</p>
+
+<p>"That cannot be done," said the old elephant.
+"We are in a ship, on the big water, and if we
+got out now, in the ocean, we would surely
+drown. Be quiet!"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg&nbsp;43]</a></span>"But why am I tossed about so?" asked Tum
+Tum. "Why can I not stand up straight?"</p>
+
+<p>"Because the ship is in a storm," answered the
+old elephant. "I know, for I have been on a
+ship before. The wind is blowing and tossing
+the ship up and down.</p>
+
+<p>"But there is no danger. Only keep quiet,
+and, since you are the new leader of the elephants,
+tell them to be quiet, or some of them
+may be hurt. See, down come the sailors to
+see what is the trouble."</p>
+
+<p>Surely enough, down came a whole lot of
+sailors, in white suits, to see why all the elephants
+had trumpeted so loudly, and why
+Mappo, the merry monkey, had squealed.</p>
+
+<p>"Hush! Be quiet!" called Tum Tum to the
+other elephants. "Be quiet or I shall beat you
+with my trunk, and make you."</p>
+
+<p>When Tum Tum spoke that way, all the
+other elephants heard him, and they grew quiet.
+Some, who had fallen on their knees, when the
+ship tossed from side to side, now got up.
+They placed their big legs far apart, so they
+could stand steadily.</p>
+
+<p>"We will be all right when the storm passes,"
+said the old elephant who had spoken to Tum
+Tum.</p>
+
+<p>Mappo picked himself up off the pile of hay,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg&nbsp;44]</a></span>
+and, just then, his friend the sailor came to get
+him.</p>
+
+<p>"I guess you have been here long enough,
+Mappo," said the sailor. "You might get hurt
+down here, with all these big elephants."</p>
+
+<p>Mappo was glad enough to go, not that he
+felt afraid of the elephants, but he knew that
+one of them might, by accident, fall on him, and
+an elephant is so large and heavy that, when he
+falls on a monkey, there is not much left of the
+little chap.</p>
+
+<p>"Good-by, Tum Tum!" called Mappo to his
+big friend. "I'll come and see you, when the
+storm is over."</p>
+
+<p>"All right," answered Tum Tum. "And I
+hope the storm will soon be over, for I do not
+like it."</p>
+
+<p>The ship was swinging to and fro, like a rocking
+chair on the front porch when the wind
+blows. But finally the elephants became used
+to it, and some of them could even go to sleep.
+But Tum Tum stayed awake.</p>
+
+<p>"There might be some danger," he thought
+to himself, "and if there was, I could warn the
+others. I am the leader, and must always be
+on the watch for danger, just as Mr. Boom
+would be, if he were here."</p>
+
+<p>But I am glad to say no more danger came
+to the ship. It rode safely through the storm,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg&nbsp;45]</a></span>
+and in a few days, it was gliding swiftly over
+the blue sea.</p>
+
+<p>"What will happen to us, when the ship stops
+sailing?" asked Tum Tum of the old elephant,
+who seemed to know so much.</p>
+
+<p>"After it gets to the other side of the ocean,"
+said the old elephant, "we shall be taken out&mdash;we
+and all the animals. Then we shall go to
+the circus."</p>
+
+<p>"Is the circus nice?" asked Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"I have been in one or two, and I like them,"
+said the old elephant, whose name was Hoy.
+"There is hard work, but there is also fun."</p>
+
+<p>"Tell me about the fun," said Tum Tum. "I
+do not like to hear about the hard work."</p>
+
+<p>"The work goes with the fun," said Hoy, "so
+I will tell you about both. The hard work
+comes in marching through the hard city streets,
+that hurt your feet. That is when we go in the
+parade. I know, for I have been in many
+parades. But it is fun, too, for we elephants
+have a little house on our backs, and men and
+women ride in it. Then the bands play, and
+the people laugh and shout to see us pass by.
+Yes, that is fun," and the old elephant, who had
+been sent to make the voyage in the ship, so that
+he might keep the new, wild elephants quiet, shut
+his eyes as he thought of the circus days.</p>
+
+<p>"Is there other hard work?" asked Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg&nbsp;46]</a></span>"A great deal," said Hoy. "You will have
+to push heavy wagons about with your head, and
+lift heavy poles, as you did in the lumber yard
+when you came from the jungle. And then you
+will have to do tricks in the circus ring."</p>
+
+<p>"What are tricks?" asked Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Tricks are what I call hard work, but they
+make the people in the circus laugh," answered
+Hoy. "You will have to stand on your head,
+turn somersaults and do many things like that."</p>
+
+<p>"Now tell me about the fun," begged Tum
+Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, there is some fun," spoke Hoy, slowly.
+"You will get nice hay to eat, and water to
+drink, and the children in the circus will give
+you popcorn balls and peanuts to eat. Also,
+you will wear a fine blanket, all gold and spangles,
+when you march around the ring in the tent.
+But now I am tired, and I want to go to sleep."</p>
+
+<p>So the old elephant slept, and Tum Tum
+stood there, swaying backward and forward in
+the ship, wondering whether he would like a
+circus.</p>
+
+<p>It took several weeks for the ship to make the
+journey from jungle land to circus land, and,
+during that period, Mappo, the merry monkey,
+came down to see Tum Tum several times.</p>
+
+<p>"I am going to be in the circus, also," said<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg&nbsp;47]</a></span>
+Mappo, when one day Tum Tum spoke of the
+big show under the white tent.</p>
+
+<p>"Are you?" asked the jolly elephant. "That
+will be nice. We'll see each other."</p>
+
+<p>"And will you take care of me, so the tiger
+won't get me?" asked Mappo.</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed I shall!" cried Tum Tum through
+his big trunk.</p>
+
+<p>At last the day came when the ship reached
+her dock, and the animals were taken out. The
+chains were loosed from the legs of Tum Tum
+and the other elephants, and they were hoisted
+up from the lower part of the ship, and allowed
+to go ashore. Tum Tum was glad of it, for he
+was tired of the water. But his journey was
+not over, for, with the others, he was put in a
+railroad car, and hauled by an engine. At last,
+however, he reached a big wooden building, and
+the old elephant, Hoy, said:</p>
+
+<p>"This is where the circus stays in winter.
+Now you will begin to have hard work, and
+also fun."</p>
+
+<p>"Well," thought Tum Tum, as, with the other
+elephants, he marched toward the big barn-like
+building, "if there is enough fun, I shall not
+mind the hard work."</p>
+
+<p>Then, as he felt rather jolly, after getting out
+of the big freight car, Tum Tum picked up a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg&nbsp;48]</a></span>
+piece of stick from the ground, and began tickling
+another elephant in the ribs with it.</p>
+
+<p>"Yoump! Umph! Woomph!" trumpeted
+this elephant. This was his way of saying:</p>
+
+<p>"Hi, there! What are you doing? Stop it!"</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, that's only in fun!" laughed Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, my ribs are too sore to want that kind
+of fun," the other elephant said. "Now you
+just quit!"</p>
+
+<p>But Tum Tum was so jolly that he wanted
+more fun, so he tickled another elephant. This
+elephant, instead of speaking to Tum Tum, just
+reached over with her long trunk, pulled one
+of Tum Tum's legs out from under him, and
+down he went in a heap.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! Maybe you like that kind of fun!"
+cried the elephant who had made Tum Tum
+fall.</p>
+
+<p>"It didn't hurt me!" said Tum Tum, as he
+got up. But, after that, he was careful not to
+play any jokes on this elephant.</p>
+
+<p>It was very cold in this new land to which
+Tum Tum had come, for it was winter. It was
+not at all like his green, hot jungle, and he was
+glad when he was led, with the other elephants,
+into the big barn, where the circus stayed in
+winter.</p>
+
+<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></span>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg&nbsp;49]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM AND DON</h3>
+
+<p>"Well, this is certainly a funny place,"
+thought Tum Tum, the jolly elephant,
+as he looked about him.
+And well might he say so.</p>
+
+<p>He found himself inside a large barn, which
+was nice and warm, and for this Tum Tum was
+glad, for it felt more like the warmth of his
+jungle, and Tum Tum, who had been shivering
+in the cold, outer air, now felt much better.</p>
+
+<p>The earthen floor of the barn was covered
+with sawdust, and all around the sides of the
+barn were cages containing many animals.
+There were lions, tigers, wolves, leopards, monkeys,
+snakes, and many other strange beasts,
+some of which Tum Tum had seen in his jungle
+home, and some of which he had never before
+seen.</p>
+
+<p>"I suppose that is where Mappo will be put,"
+thought Tum Tum, as he looked at the cages
+full of lively little monkey chaps.</p>
+
+<p>Then Tum Tum looked and saw a number of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg&nbsp;50]</a></span>
+elephants, chained in a row on another side of
+the circus barn, and he knew that would be his
+place. Opening out of the big barn was a
+smaller one, and in that were many horses and
+ponies.</p>
+
+<p>There were many men in the circus barn, and
+they all seemed to be doing something. Some
+were carrying pails of water to the animals,
+others were feeding hay to the elephants, and
+meat to the lions, tigers and spotted leopards.
+Tum Tum did not care for meat, but he was very
+hungry for some of the juicy, green leaves that
+grew on trees in his jungle.</p>
+
+<p>As he could get none of those now, he had
+to eat dry hay, and very good that tasted, too.
+He had grown to like it on board the ship.</p>
+
+<p>"Bring the elephants over here!" called one
+circus man to another, and Tum Tum felt himself
+being led along by a man who had a stick
+with a hook in the end of it. But the man did
+not stick the hook in Tum Tum, because Tum
+Tum was good and gentle now.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum, though he had been a wild elephant
+in the jungle only a few weeks before,
+had learned many things, since he had been
+caught. He had learned that men were his
+friends, and would not hurt him, though they
+made him do as they wanted him to, and ordered
+him about as though he were a little dog instead<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg&nbsp;51]</a></span>
+of a big, strong elephant. The men did not
+seem to be afraid of Tum Tum, though he was
+a little afraid of them, especially when they carried
+sharp hooks, which hurt one's skin.</p>
+
+<p>"Come along!" cried the man who was leading
+Tum Tum and the others, and over to one
+side of the circus barn they went, to be chained
+by a leg to a very strong stake driven into the
+ground.</p>
+
+<p>"Feed them up well," said the first man, "and
+then we'll see about putting them through some
+tricks."</p>
+
+<p>"Ha!" thought Tum Tum. "So the tricks
+are to begin soon, are they? I wonder what
+kind I shall do, and whether I shall like them
+or not?"</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum waited anxiously to see what would
+happen next. What did happen was that he
+got something to eat, and a little treat into the
+bargain.</p>
+
+<p>For with the big pile of hay that was given
+him, there were some long, pointed yellow
+things.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! What are those?" asked Tum Tum of
+Hoy, the big, tame elephant who had been in a
+circus before.</p>
+
+<p>"They are carrots," said Hoy.</p>
+
+<p>"Are they good to eat?" asked Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Try and see," answered Hoy, with a twinkle<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg&nbsp;52]</a></span>
+in his little eyes. He was eating the yellow
+carrots as fast as he could.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum took one little bite, holding the
+carrot in his trunk. And, as soon as he chewed
+on it, he knew that he liked carrots very much.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! That is certainly good!" he said to
+Hoy. "I wish I had carrots every day."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, but you won't get them every day," said
+the old elephant. "They are just special, to get
+you to feeling jolly, so you will learn your
+tricks more easily."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, I feel pretty jolly anyhow," said Tum
+Tum. "I'll do any tricks I can."</p>
+
+<p>He did not know yet all that was to happen
+to him, before he learned to do his tricks.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum had been in the circus nearly a
+week before he was taught any tricks. In that
+week he had plenty to eat, and good water to
+drink, some of which he spurted over himself
+with his trunk. That was his way of taking a
+bath, you see.</p>
+
+<p>Then, one day, some circus men came to where
+Tum Tum was chained, and one of them said:</p>
+
+<p>"Now, we'll take out this big elephant, and
+teach him some tricks. Get Hoy, so he'll show
+Tum Tum what we want done."</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! So now the tricks begin!" cried Tum
+Tum to Hoy.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, and you want to watch out, and do as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg&nbsp;53]</a></span>
+you are told, or you may not like it," said Hoy.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum and the older elephant were led
+to the middle of the circus ring. The chains
+were taken off Tum Tum's legs, but a rope was
+put around his front ones, and he wondered what
+that was for. Then Tum Tum and Hoy were
+stood in a line with some other big elephants.</p>
+
+<p>"All ready now!" cried a circus man, snapping
+his long whip. "Stand up!"</p>
+
+<p>Hoy raised himself up on his hind legs, lifting
+his trunk high in the air.</p>
+
+<p>"Do as I do! Do as I do!" called Hoy to
+Tum Tum. "Stand up on your hind legs."</p>
+
+<p>"I&mdash;I can't!" answered Tum Tum, who tried.
+But he found he could not.</p>
+
+<p>Then a funny thing happened. All of a sudden
+Tum Tum found his front legs and head
+being pulled up in the air by the rope, and, before
+he knew it, he was standing on his hind legs
+whether he wanted to or not.</p>
+
+<p>The circus men had pulled on the end of the
+rope, which ran through a pulley, hoisting Tum
+Tum in the air. That was the way they had
+of teaching him to stand up. Several times
+Tum Tum was let down to the ground, and
+hauled up again, and each time he was pulled
+up, the circus man would call out:</p>
+
+<p>"Stand up on your hind legs! Stand up on
+your hind legs!"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg&nbsp;54]</a></span>"Is this a trick?" asked Tum Tum of Hoy,
+who did not have to have a rope around him to
+pull him up.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, it is one trick," answered the old elephant.
+"There are many more, though, to
+learn."</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was beginning to be tired of being
+hauled up this way. So were some of the other
+elephants, and one of them tried to break loose.
+But he was hit with a rope, and squealed so that
+none of the others tried to get away.</p>
+
+<p>"Now then, take off the ropes, and we'll see
+how many have learned their lesson," said the
+head circus man.</p>
+
+<p>"Now's your chance to show how smart you
+are," whispered Hoy to Tum Tum. "When
+he tells you to stand up next time, do it all by
+yourself. Then you'll have learned this one
+trick."</p>
+
+<p>"I'll try," promised Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>The elephants stood in a row. The head circus
+man cracked his whip, and called:</p>
+
+<p>"Up on your hind legs!"</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum gave a little spring, and raised his
+front legs from the ground. He settled back
+on his strong hind legs, and there he was, doing
+just as Hoy was doing! Tum Tum had learned
+his first lesson, just as he had learned to pile
+teakwood logs in straight piles.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg&nbsp;55]</a></span>"Ha! We have one smart fellow in the
+bunch, anyhow!" cried the circus man.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was glad when he heard this, just
+as you would be, if you had learned your lesson
+in school. For it is a good thing to learn to
+do things, even for an elephant.</p>
+
+<p>But if Tum Tum thought he would get a
+rest after he had shown that he could do the
+trick without being hauled up by a rope, he was
+sadly mistaken. Over and over he had to do
+the trick, until he felt tired, large and strong
+as he was.</p>
+
+<p>Some of the elephants could stand up on their
+hind legs for a second or so, and then they fell
+down again. They were made to practice again
+with ropes, but no ropes were needed for Tum
+Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, that's enough for one day," said the
+head circus man finally. "Give them all some
+carrots with their hay. To-morrow we shall
+try having them stand on their front legs."</p>
+
+<p>"Will that be harder?" asked Tum Tum of
+Hoy as he marched to the side of the barn where
+the elephants were kept.</p>
+
+<p>"Much harder," said the old elephant. "But
+I think you can do it."</p>
+
+<p>"I'll try, anyhow," spoke Tum Tum, with a
+jolly laugh. "I think tricks are fun."</p>
+
+<p>Standing on his front legs, with his hind ones<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg&nbsp;56]</a></span>
+in the air, was not as funny as he had thought.
+In the first place, he had to start with the rope,
+and, before he knew it, his hind legs were pulled
+out from under him, by the circus men, and
+Tum Tum was almost standing on his head.
+Hoy told him what to do, and how to balance
+himself, just as he told the other elephants, and
+soon Tum Tum could do it very well. When
+this practice was over, and when Tum Tum
+could stand on either his front or hind legs,
+without being pulled by a rope, he was given
+more carrots to eat.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum could now do two tricks, but, as
+you children know, who have seen elephants in
+a circus, there are many others that can be done.</p>
+
+<p>Elephants can be made to sit down in a low,
+strong chair, they can be made to stand on top
+of a small tub, to play see-saw, to ring bells,
+play hand organs with their trunks, and do
+many other queer things they never thought of
+doing in the jungle.</p>
+
+<p>Why, I have seen elephants fire cannon, wave
+flags, and play baseball. Elephants are very
+wonderful, and very wise and lively, for such
+big animals.</p>
+
+<p>As the winter days went by, Tum Tum
+learned many tricks in the circus. He learned
+to stand with other elephants, in a long row,
+and let the acrobats jump over him, and he also<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg&nbsp;57]</a></span>
+let the clowns jump right on his broad back.
+Tum Tum learned to do a little dance, too, but
+he never danced as well as the ponies could, for
+Tum Tum was very heavy. Tum Tum also
+learned how to walk across, and kneel down
+over his master, who lay flat on the sawdust,
+and though Tum Tum, with his big body, came
+very close to the man, he never touched him.
+If Tum Tum had stepped, even with one foot,
+on the man, he would have hurt him very much.
+But Tum Tum was careful.</p>
+
+<p>One day, when spring was near at hand, and
+when it was nearly time for the circus to travel
+on the road, from one town to another, Tum
+Tum was out in front of the barn, helping push
+some of the big circus wagons about. He
+pushed them with his strong head.</p>
+
+<p>All at once Tum Tum felt something bite him
+on the hind leg, and he heard a barking noise,
+such as monkeys sometimes make.</p>
+
+<p>"Is that you, Mappo?" asked Tum Tum
+quickly. He could not turn around, for he was
+pushing the wagon up hill.</p>
+
+<p>"Bow wow! Bow wow! Bow wow!" was
+the barking answer, and Tum Tum felt his legs
+nipped again.</p>
+
+<p>"Stop that, Mappo, if you please," said the
+big elephant. "Please don't do that, when I am
+pushing this wagon."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg&nbsp;58]</a></span>But Tum Tum's leg was bitten again, and
+he cried:</p>
+
+<p>"Mappo, I shall squeeze you in my trunk, if
+you do not let me alone. I like a joke as well
+as you do, but it is no fun to have your legs
+nipped when you are pushing a heavy wagon.
+Stop it!"</p>
+
+<p>"Bow wow! Bow wow! Bow wow!" came
+the answer.</p>
+
+<p>"That doesn't sound exactly like Mappo,"
+said Tum Tum. "I wonder who it can be?"</p>
+
+<p>When Tum Tum had pushed the wagon to
+the top of the hill, he could turn around. Then,
+instead of seeing the merry little monkey, he
+saw a big black and white dog, who was barking
+and nipping at his heels.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, ho! So it is you, eh?" asked Tum Tum.
+"Who are you, and what are you biting me for?"</p>
+
+<p>"My name is Don," barked the dog, "and I
+am biting you to drive you away. I am afraid
+you might hurt my master. I never saw such
+an animal as you, with two tails. Go away!"
+and Don barked louder than before, and once
+more tried to bite the elephant's feet.</p>
+
+<p>"Here, Don! Don!" called a man's voice.
+"Come away from that elephant!"</p>
+
+<p>"Bow wow!" barked Don. "I am going to
+bite him!"</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, are you?" asked Tum Tum. And with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg&nbsp;59]</a></span>
+that he reached out with his trunk, caught Don
+around the middle, and lifted him high in the
+air. Don did not bark now. He howled in
+fear.</p>
+
+<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></span>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg&nbsp;60]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM AND THE WAGON</h3>
+
+<p>"Please let me down! Oh, please do!"
+begged Don, the dog, of Tum Tum,
+the jolly elephant, as the big creature
+from the jungle held the dog high up in the
+air.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum did not feel so very jolly just then.
+He did not want to hurt Don, but neither did
+the elephant like to be nipped on his hind legs,
+when he was pushing a wagon.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, the elephant has our dog!" cried a boy
+who was with the man who had called after
+Don. "Oh, papa, will he hurt him?"</p>
+
+<p>"No, Tum Tum won't hurt anyone," said a
+circus man. "I'll get your dog back for you,
+but he must be careful of elephants after this."</p>
+
+<p>"He never saw one before," said the boy's
+father.</p>
+
+<p><a name="while" id="while"></a>All this while Tum Tum was holding Don
+high in the air in his trunk.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, won't you let me down?" begged Don.</p>
+
+<p>"I will, if you won't bark at me again, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg&nbsp;61]</a></span>
+bite me," said Tum Tum. "I don't want to
+hurt you, doggie boy, but I can't have you
+bothering me, when I'm doing my circus
+work."</p>
+
+<a name="Don" id="Don"></a><span class="toill"><a href="#Illus">Illus</a></span>
+<p class="center"><a name="image-5" id="image-5"><!-- Image 5 --></a>
+<img src="images/illus-062s.png" class="png" height="673" width="400" alt="All this while Tum Tum was holding Don high in the air in his trunk. Page 60." title="All this while Tum Tum was holding Don high in the air in his trunk. Page 60." /></p>
+<p class="image"><a name="Dog" id="Dog" href="images/illus-062x.png" class="image">
+View larger image</a></p>
+
+<p class="center"><strong>All this while Tum Tum was holding Don high in the<br /> air in his trunk.</strong><br /> <a href="#while">Page 60</a></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg&nbsp;62]</a></span><br /></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg&nbsp;63]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Oh, I'll be good! I'll be good!" promised
+Don, and with that Tum Tum lowered him
+gently to the ground, uncoiled his trunk from
+around Don's middle, and the dog ran howling
+to his master and the boy.</p>
+
+<p>"Don, what made you bite the elephant?"
+asked the boy.</p>
+
+<p>Don only barked gently in answer. He could
+not speak man or boy talk, you know, any more
+than an elephant could, though he understood
+it very well.</p>
+
+<p>"I told you the elephant wouldn't hurt your
+dog," said the circus man. "Tum Tum is very
+gentle."</p>
+
+<p>Don crept behind his master, and looked at
+Tum Tum. The elephant walked down to get
+another wagon to push up hill, as all the circus
+horses were too busy to pull it.</p>
+
+<p>"Bow wow!" barked Don, but this time he
+was talking to Tum Tum, and not barking
+angrily at him. "Are you an elephant?" asked
+Don, in his own language, which the elephant
+understood very well.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, I am an elephant," said Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"And you have two tails," went on Don.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg&nbsp;64]</a></span>Almost anyone who sees an elephant for the
+first time thinks that.</p>
+
+<p>"No, I have only one tail," Tum Tum answered.
+"The front thing is my trunk, or long
+nose. I breathe through it, pick up things to
+eat in it, and squirt water through it."</p>
+
+<p>"My! It is very useful, isn't it?" asked Don,
+wagging his tail.</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed it is," said Tum Tum. The elephant
+and the dog were fast becoming friends now,
+and were talking together, though the boy and
+his father and the circus men did not know this.</p>
+
+<p>"Then was it your trunk that you picked me
+up in?" asked Don, of the elephant.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," replied Tum Tum, "and I am sorry
+if I frightened you."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, well, that's all right," answered Don.
+"I am all right now, and I suppose I did wrong
+to bark at you, and bite. I am sorry."</p>
+
+<p>"Then I'll excuse you," spoke Tum Tum.
+"But what is your name, and where do you
+live?"</p>
+
+<p>"My name is Don, and I live on a farm,"
+answered the dog. "We have a comical little
+pig on our farm named Squinty. Did you ever
+see him?"</p>
+
+<p>"I think not," answered Tum Tum. "You
+see I haven't been in this country very long.
+Did you bring the pig to the circus?"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg&nbsp;65]</a></span>"Gracious, no!" barked Don. "He had to
+stay home in the pen. But my master, his boy
+and I came to see you elephants, and other circus
+animals. Only I never knew what an elephant
+was like before."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, now you know," said Tum Tum, "so
+you won't bark at, or bite, the next one you
+see."</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed I shall not," said Don. "I have to
+bark at Squinty, the comical pig, once in a while,
+when he gets out of the pen, and once I took
+hold of his ear in my teeth."</p>
+
+<p>"I hope you didn't hurt him," said Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"No, I wouldn't do that for the world," said
+Don. And those of you who have read about
+"Squinty, the Comical Pig," know how kind
+Don was to him.</p>
+
+<p>"So you came to see the circus?" went on
+Tum Tum to Don, as the dog's master and his
+boy looked about at the strange sights.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, though I don't know exactly what a
+circus is," said Don.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, this is the start of it," Tum Tum said.
+"These are our winter quarters. Soon we shall
+start out on the road, and live in a tent. Then
+I shall do my tricks, the children and the people
+will laugh and shout, and give me popcorn balls
+and peanuts. Oh, yum-yum!" and Tum Tum
+smacked his lips because he thought of the good<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg&nbsp;66]</a></span>
+things he was going to have to eat a little later
+on.</p>
+
+<p>"Can you do tricks?" asked Don.</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed I can, a great many," the elephant
+said. "I can stand on my hind feet&mdash;so!" and
+up he rose in the air, until his little short tail
+dangled on the ground.</p>
+
+<p>"Anything else?" asked Don. "That's a good
+trick. Let me see you do another."</p>
+
+<p>"Look!" cried Tum Tum, and this time he
+stood on his front legs, and raised his hind ones
+in the air.</p>
+
+<p>"That's harder to do," said the jolly elephant.</p>
+
+<p>"I should think so," agreed Don. "I'm going
+to try it myself." Don did try, but when
+he wanted to stand on his front legs, he fell
+over and bumped his nose. And when he tried
+to stand on his hind legs, he fell over backward
+and bumped his head.</p>
+
+<p>"I&mdash;I guess I can't do it," he said to Tum
+Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"It needs much practice to do it well," spoke
+the jolly elephant.</p>
+
+<p>"Here, Tum Tum!" called one of the circus
+men. "This is no time to be doing tricks.
+Come and help push some more of these wagons.
+If the circus is ever to start out on the road, to
+give shows in the tent, we must start soon.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg&nbsp;67]</a></span>
+Come, push some of these wagons, with your
+big, strong head."</p>
+
+<p>"I'll have to go now," said Tum Tum to Don,
+the dog, for they were now good friends. "I
+may see you again, sometime."</p>
+
+<p>"I hope you will," spoke Don. "Your circus
+is coming to our town, I know, for the barns
+on our farm are pasted over with posters, and
+bills."</p>
+
+<p>"Then I may see you when we get there,"
+said Tum Tum, as he walked slowly forward to
+push the wagon pointed out by the circus man.</p>
+
+<p>That is how Don and Tum Tum became acquainted.
+As the dog went off with his master
+and the boy, he barked a good-by to Tum Tum,
+saying:</p>
+
+<p>"If you come near our place, I'll show you
+Squinty, the comical pig. One eye is wide open,
+and the other partly shut."</p>
+
+<p>"He must be a funny chap," said Tum Tum.
+The big, jolly elephant pushed into place the
+heavy wagon. Then it was dinner time. But
+as Tum Tum was eating his hay and carrots in
+the animal tent, for he was kept in that, now
+that the weather was warmer, all at once Tum
+Tum heard a loud shouting.</p>
+
+<p>"Look out for that wagon. The tiger cage
+wagon is rolling down hill. It will turn over,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg&nbsp;68]</a></span>
+be smashed, and the tiger will get out! Stop
+that wagon, somebody!"</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum heard this shouting, and looking
+out of the side of his tent, he saw a big red and
+gold wagon rushing down the hill backwards.</p>
+
+<p>"I must stop that wagon," said Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></span>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg&nbsp;69]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM LOOKS FOR MAPPO</h3>
+
+<p>Tum Tum, the jolly elephant, pulled
+hard on the chain that held his big leg
+fast to a stake driven into the ground.
+He wanted to get loose so he could stop the
+wagon from rolling down hill, maybe upsetting
+and letting the big tiger out.</p>
+
+<p>"I know I can stop the wagon, if they will
+only take this chain off my leg, so I can get out
+there," thought Tum Tum, as he pulled and
+tugged at the chain and peg.</p>
+
+<p>Outside the tent men were running and shouting.
+Some of them tried to put stones in the
+way of the wagon wheels, but the tiger's cage was
+so heavy that it rolled right over the stones.</p>
+
+<p>The tiger was frightened and angry, and he
+growled and snarled, until you would have
+thought he was back in the jungle again.</p>
+
+<p>"Let me loose! Let me loose!" trumpeted
+Tum Tum through his trunk, as he waved it to
+and fro. Of course none of the circus men could
+understand this language, but Tum Tum's
+keeper knew what the big elephant meant.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg&nbsp;70]</a></span>The keeper came running in the tent.</p>
+
+<p>"Tum Tum!" he cried. "I believe you can
+stop that wagon. Stop the tiger cage! Get in
+front of it, and push on it with your big head.
+That will stop it from rolling down hill!"</p>
+
+<p>"I will! I will!" said Tum Tum, only, of
+course, he spoke in elephant language.</p>
+
+<p>The keeper soon took the chain off Tum
+Tum's leg, and the big elephant rushed out of
+the tent, and toward the rolling wagon. None
+of the men had yet been able to stop it, and it was
+half way down the hill now, going faster and
+faster. Inside, the tiger was growling and snarling
+louder than ever, and trying to break out
+through the iron bars.</p>
+
+<p>"Look out! He'll get away!" cried Mappo,
+who had run and jumped inside the cage with
+the other monkeys. "Old Sharp Tooth will get
+loose."</p>
+
+<p>"No, he won't!" said Tum Tum, who was now
+going toward the tiger's cage as fast as he could.
+"Don't be afraid, Mappo," the elephant went
+on, for he knew monkeys are very much afraid
+of tigers. "I won't let him get you, Mappo,"
+said Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>On rushed the big elephant toward the rolling
+cage. He got in front of it, and then he stood
+still, in the middle of the hill, waiting for the
+tiger's cage, on wheels, to roll down to him.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg&nbsp;71]</a></span>"Look out, Tum Tum, or it will hit you!"
+chattered Mappo.</p>
+
+<p>"That's what I want it to do," said Tum Tum.
+"But it can't hurt me, as my head is so big and
+strong. Now you watch me!"</p>
+
+<p>On came the tiger's cage. Tum Tum stood
+there ready to let it bunk into him. His legs
+were spread far apart so he himself would not
+be knocked over.</p>
+
+<p>Bang!</p>
+
+<p>That was the tiger's cage hitting Tum Tum on
+the head.</p>
+
+<p>"Ouch!" yelled the big elephant through his
+trunk, for though it did not hurt him much, he
+felt a little pain.</p>
+
+<p>Then he stood there, and pushed so hard on
+the big wagon, that it could not roll down hill
+any more. Instead, it began to roll back up the
+hill, as Tum Tum pushed on it.</p>
+
+<p>"That's the way to do it, Tum Tum!" cried
+the elephant's keeper. "I knew you could do
+it. Come on now, old fellow. Push the cage
+right back where it belongs."</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum did so. Soon the tiger's cage was
+in line with those of the lions, wolves, bears and
+other animals, ready for the circus to begin.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, but I'm glad the tiger didn't get
+loose," said Mappo, to Tum Tum. "I was so
+afraid!"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg&nbsp;72]</a></span>"Why were you afraid?" the big elephant
+wanted to know.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, because Sharp Tooth, the tiger, does not
+like me. I am sure he would bite me, if he got
+loose."</p>
+
+<p>"Why would he do that?" asked Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Because I would not let him out of his cage,
+when he and I were caught in the jungle," answered
+the monkey.</p>
+
+<p>Then he told about the time Sharp Tooth had
+tried to get out of his cage.</p>
+
+<p>"Never fear, Mappo," said Tum Tum. "I'll
+not let Sharp Tooth hurt you as long as I am
+around."</p>
+
+<p>"Thank you," said Mappo.</p>
+
+<p>For several days after this the circus went
+from town to town, traveling after dark each
+night, so as to be ready to give a show in the
+day-time.</p>
+
+<p>One day Sharp Tooth, the tiger, spoke to Tum
+Tum as the elephant was passing the cage.</p>
+
+<p>"Why did you stop my wagon from rolling
+down hill, Tum Tum?" asked the tiger.</p>
+
+<p>"Because I did not want to see it smashed, and
+see you thrown out, Sharp Tooth," answered
+Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"But that is just what I wanted to do&mdash;get
+out," spoke the tiger. "I want to get loose! I
+am tired of staying in the cage!"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg&nbsp;73]</a></span>"But if you got out, you might bite someone,"
+went on Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, that is just what I would do," growled
+the tiger. "I would bite and scratch until the
+men would be glad to let me go back to my
+jungle again. I am mad at you for not letting
+my cage run on. If you had, I would now be
+free."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, I am glad you are not free," said Tum
+Tum, as he looked at the sharp teeth and sharp
+claws of the tiger, and thought of little Mappo.</p>
+
+<p>"Then I am mad at you, and I am going to
+stay mad," said the tiger, and he sulked in his
+cage.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was not very much afraid of the
+tiger now, even though he knew the bad animal
+might some day get loose and scratch him.</p>
+
+<p>"I don't believe Sharp Tooth will ever get
+out," said Tum Tum to himself.</p>
+
+<p>The big elephant had good times in the circus.
+He had to do only a few tricks in the afternoon,
+and some more in the evening. The rest of the
+time he could eat or sleep, except when the circus
+moved from place to place. Then he would
+have to help the other elephants push the heavy
+wagons up on the railroad trains. But Tum
+Tum did not mind this.</p>
+
+<p>What he liked, best of all, was to stand in the
+animal tent, before and after his trick perform<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg&nbsp;74]</a></span>ances,
+and watch the children and grown people
+come in to look at him and the other animals.
+Some of the little children seemed afraid of the
+elephants, but when Tum Tum saw one of these
+frightened little tots, he would just put out his
+trunk, and gently stroke some other little boy or
+girl, so as to show how gentle he was. Then
+the frightened one's mother or father would say:</p>
+
+<p>"See, the good elephant will not hurt you.
+Come, give him some peanuts or popcorn."</p>
+
+<p>Then the child would hand Tum Tum a peanut,
+and Tum Tum would eat it with a twinkle
+in his little eyes.</p>
+
+<p>Of course Tum Tum would much rather have
+had a whole bag full of peanuts at a time, for he
+could put them all in his mouth, and more, at
+once.</p>
+
+<p>Still, Tum Tum was glad enough to get single
+peanuts at a time, and though it was hard work
+to chew a single one in his big mouth, just as it
+would be hard for you to chew just one grain of
+sugar, still Tum Tum was very polite, and he
+never refused to take the single peanuts.</p>
+
+<p>"A big ball of popcorn makes something
+pretty good to chew on," said Tum Tum to one
+of the elephants chained near him. "I like that,
+don't you?"</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed I do," the elephant said. "We never<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg&nbsp;75]</a></span>
+got anything as nice as popcorn and peanuts in
+the jungle, did we?"</p>
+
+<p>"No," answered Tum Tum, thinking of the
+days in the dense jungle. Tum Tum wondered
+what had become of Mr. Boom and where his
+father and mother, and his other elephant
+friends, might be.</p>
+
+<p>"I suppose they are still back in the lumber
+yard, piling up teakwood logs," thought Tum
+Tum. "I am glad I am in the circus, even if I
+did have to be pulled up with a rope to make me
+learn how to stand on my head and my hind
+legs."</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum could do many other tricks besides
+these now, and he was such a jolly old elephant,
+always doing as he was told without any grumbling,
+that all the circus men liked him.</p>
+
+<p>If there was anything hard to do, or any trick
+that none of the other elephants could go
+through, Tum Tum was sure to be called on.</p>
+
+<p>"He is the smartest elephant of all," his keeper
+would say, and this made Tum Tum feel very
+proud and happy.</p>
+
+<p>One day there was much excitement in the
+animal tent, and at first Tum Tum thought
+maybe the tiger had gotten loose again, or that
+another big cage had rolled down hill.</p>
+
+<p>When one of the animal men rushed in and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg&nbsp;76]</a></span>
+called out something, Tum Tum knew it was
+not that.</p>
+
+<p>"One of the monkeys is missing," said one
+trainer to another. "It is Mappo, that smart
+one."</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! Is that so?" asked the other. "How
+did he get loose?"</p>
+
+<p>"He must have slipped out of the cage, when
+we were on the road. Come, we are going to
+try to find him."</p>
+
+<p>"I know a good way," said the keeper of Tum
+Tum. "I shall take my elephant with me. My
+elephant and that monkey Mappo were good
+friends. If Mappo sees Tum Tum, he will be
+glad to come back. So we will take Tum Tum
+to hunt Mappo."</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! That is good!" thought Tum Tum, as
+he listened.</p>
+
+<p>Soon the hunt for Mappo began. Many of
+the circus men started for the woods to look for
+the lost monkey. Tum Tum went along also,
+his keeper riding on his back.</p>
+
+<p>"I wonder if we will find Mappo?" thought
+Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></span>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg&nbsp;77]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM AND THE FIRE</h3>
+
+<p>Through the woods, near the circus
+town, went the men looking for lost
+Mappo. They wanted to get back the
+monkey because he was such a good one to do
+tricks, and because the children, many of whom
+came to the circus, liked to see him ride on the
+back of a dog, or pony, and jump through paper-covered
+hoops.</p>
+
+<p>"We must find Mappo!" cried the keeper who
+had him in charge.</p>
+
+<p>Mappo had run away, as I have told you in
+the book about his adventures, because he was
+afraid Sharp Tooth, the big tiger, would get
+loose and bite him. In the woods he had many
+wonderful adventures.</p>
+
+<p>He met Slicko, the jumping girl squirrel,
+about whom I have told you, and also Squinty,
+the comical pig. Mappo liked Squinty, the pig,
+very much, for Squinty was a nice little chap.</p>
+
+<p>On and on went Tum Tum and the men, looking
+for the lost monkey. After the search had
+gone on for several hours, Mappo, who was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg&nbsp;78]</a></span>
+walking along through the woods with Squinty,
+saw the circus men coming after him.</p>
+
+<p>"Here's where I have to run and hide," said
+Mappo.</p>
+
+<p>"Why?" grunted Squinty, the comical pig.</p>
+
+<p>"Because the circus men are after me.
+Look!" and the monkey chap pointed through
+the woods to where could be seen some men in
+red coats.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, and look at that funny animal with two
+tails!" cried Squinty. "I'd be afraid of him."</p>
+
+<p>"You wouldn't need to be," said Mappo.
+"That is only Tum Tum, the elephant, and he is
+very jolly. He would not hurt a fly. I guess
+he is looking for me, but, as I don't want to go
+back to the circus just yet, I'll go off in the woods
+and hide."</p>
+
+<p>"And I guess I'll go hide, too," said Squinty,
+for he, also, had run away, but not from a circus.
+He had run away from his pen at the farm&mdash;the
+farm where Don, the dog, lived.</p>
+
+<p>So Mappo hurried off to climb a tall tree.
+As Tum Tum went along through the bushes, he
+saw his little monkey friend.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! There is Mappo!" said Tum Tum to
+himself, and he hurried on through the woods.</p>
+
+<p>"Wait a minute, Mappo!" called Tum Tum,
+in animal language.</p>
+
+<p>But Mappo would not wait, and Tum Tum<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg&nbsp;79]</a></span>
+could not tell the circus men with him that the
+lost monkey was just ahead of them. Tum Tum
+could not speak man talk, you know, and the
+circus men had not yet seen Mappo. So the
+little monkey got away.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum saw a little animal with Mappo,
+and the elephant said to himself:</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! That must be Squinty, the comical pig,
+of whom Don, the dog, told me. I would like
+to meet Squinty, but I don't see how I can. He
+can run through these woods faster than I can.
+Well, maybe I will see him some day. And I
+do hope Mappo comes back to the circus. It
+will be lonesome without him."</p>
+
+<p>But Mappo had many adventures before he
+came back to the circus.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, I guess it's no use hunting for him any
+more," said one of the circus men. "That
+monkey has gotten far away. We had better
+go back to the tents."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, I think we had," said the man who was
+riding on the back of Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>The elephant knew that Mappo was not so
+very far off, but Tum Tum had no way of telling
+his keeper about it.</p>
+
+<p>Back to the circus went Tum Tum, and another
+monkey had to do the tricks that Mappo
+used to do in the performances that day.</p>
+
+<p>"What happened?" asked Sharp Tooth, the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg&nbsp;80]</a></span>
+tiger, of Tum Tum, as the elephant went past the
+cage of the striped beast. "Where did you go
+a little while ago?"</p>
+
+<p>"Out looking for Mappo, the monkey," answered
+Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Did he run away?" asked the tiger.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, I guess he was afraid you would bite
+him."</p>
+
+<p>"And so I would, if I could get him," snarled
+the tiger. "He is to blame for me being shut
+up in this cage."</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum said nothing, for he did not want to
+get in a quarrel with the tiger.</p>
+
+<p>Day after day went past in the circus, and still
+Mappo did not come back. Sometimes Tum
+Tum was lonesome for his little monkey friend,
+but there was so much to do, that no one in a
+circus could be lonesome for very long at a time.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was learning some new tricks, and
+this took up much of his time. Each day he
+was growing bigger and stronger, for he was not
+a very old elephant, when he had been caught
+in the jungle. Now he was very strong, and he
+could easily have pushed two heavy animal cages
+at once. He was the strongest elephant in the
+whole circus.</p>
+
+<p>One day, when the circus was going along the
+road from one town to another, one of the wagons
+became stuck fast in the mud, for it had rained<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg&nbsp;81]</a></span>
+in the night. It was the wagon in which rode
+the hippopotamus, with his big red mouth that
+he could open so wide.</p>
+
+<p>The whole circus procession had to stop, or
+at least all the wagons behind the hippopotamus
+cage, had to stop, as they could not get past.</p>
+
+<p>"Bring up some of the elephants, and have
+them pull the hippo's cage out of the mud!"
+cried the head circus man. He called him
+"hippo" for short, you see.</p>
+
+<p>Up came two big elephants, and chains were
+put about their necks, and made fast to the hippopotamus
+wagon.</p>
+
+<p>"Now, pull!" cried the circus men, and the
+elephants strained and pulled as hard as they
+could.</p>
+
+<p>But the wagon did not move out of the mud.</p>
+
+<p>"Pull harder!" cried the circus man, and he
+cracked his long whip, but he did not hit the
+elephants with it.</p>
+
+<p>But, no matter how hard the elephants pulled,
+they could not pull the hippopotamus wagon out
+of the mud.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, what are we going to do?" asked the
+head circus man. "We cannot stay here all
+day."</p>
+
+<p>"Suppose you let my elephant, Tum Tum, try
+to pull the wagon out of the mud," said Tum
+Tum's keeper. "My elephant is very strong."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg&nbsp;82]</a></span>"Ha! But is he as strong as two elephants?"
+asked the head circus man.</p>
+
+<p>"I think so," said the keeper. "Let us try.
+But Tum Tum can push better than he can pull,
+so I shall put him in back of the wagon, and let
+him push it out of the mud with his head. Let
+some of the men steer the wagon in front, when
+Tum Tum pushes from behind."</p>
+
+<p>"Very well, we shall try," said the head circus
+man.</p>
+
+<p>The ten horses who pulled the hippopotamus
+wagon had been unhitched when the two elephants
+tried to pull it. Now the two elephants
+were led to one side, and Tum Tum came up.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! He thinks he can push that wagon out
+of the mud, when we two could not pull it," said
+one elephant to the other.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, he is very proud," spoke the other.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum heard them.</p>
+
+<p>"No, I am not proud," said Tum Tum, "and
+I am not sure that I can push the wagon out of
+the mud, but I am going to try."</p>
+
+<p>His keeper led him up in back of the hippopotamus
+wagon. It was very large and heavy,
+and had settled far down in the soft mud of the
+road. The hippo was still in it, and the hippo
+was very heavy himself, weighing as much as
+two tons of coal. The circus men could not let
+the hippopotamus out of his cage, because he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg&nbsp;83]</a></span>
+was rather wild, and might have run away or
+made trouble. So they had to leave him in.</p>
+
+<p>"Now, Tum Tum, you have some hard work
+ahead of you!" said his trainer, as he led the
+elephant up behind the wagon. "Let me see,
+if you can push this out of the mud hole."</p>
+
+<p>"Umph! Umph!" grunted Tum Tum
+through his trunk. That was his way of saying
+that he would do his best.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum went close up to the wagon, and
+stuck his four big feet well down in the mud to
+brace himself. Then he put his large head
+against the wagon, and began to push.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum took a long breath, and then he
+pushed, and pushed and pushed some more.</p>
+
+<p>"He can never do it," said one of the two elephants
+who had tried to pull the wagon.</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed he cannot," spoke the other.</p>
+
+<p>"Wait and see!" grunted Tum Tum. "I have
+not finished yet."</p>
+
+<p>He pushed harder and harder. His head was
+hurting him, and his feet were slipping in the
+mud of the road. Still he kept on pushing.</p>
+
+<p>"I don't believe your elephant can do it," said
+one of the circus men. "We had better hitch
+about four of them to the wagon."</p>
+
+<p>"No, let Tum Tum try once more. I am
+sure he can do it," spoke the elephant's kind
+keeper.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg&nbsp;84]</a></span>When Tum Tum heard this, he felt himself
+swell up inside. It was as though he had new
+strength.</p>
+
+<p>"I <i>will</i> push that wagon!" he said to himself.
+"I <i>will</i> push it out of the mud!"</p>
+
+<p>Then he took another long breath, and pushed
+with all his might on the wagon.</p>
+
+<p>"Now it's going!" cried Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>Slowly at first, and then faster, the big hippopotamus
+wagon rolled out of the mud, and on to
+the firm, hard road.</p>
+
+<p>"There it goes!" cried a circus man.</p>
+
+<p>"Hurray! Tum Tum has done it!" shouted
+another.</p>
+
+<p>"I told you he was strong," said Tum Tum's
+keeper.</p>
+
+<p>"He surely is," spoke the head circus man.
+"But I never thought he could push that wagon."</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum had not thought so himself, but
+even an elephant never knows what he can do until
+he tries.</p>
+
+<p>"Huh! I s'pose he thinks he's smart, because
+he pushed a wagon we couldn't," said one of the
+two elephants to the other.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," said the second one, "but if they'd
+given us another chance, we could have done it,
+too."</p>
+
+<a name="Hippo" id="Hippo"></a><span class="toill"><a href="#Illus">Illus</a></span>
+<p class="center"><a name="image-6" id="image-6"><!-- Image 6 --></a>
+<img src="images/illus-086s.png" class="png" height="670" width="400" alt="The big hippopotamus wagon rolled out of the mud on to the firm hard road. Page 84." title="The big hippopotamus wagon rolled out of the mud on to the firm hard road. Page 84." /></p>
+<p class="image"><a name="wagon" id="wagon" href="images/illus-086x.png" class="image">
+View larger image</a></p>
+
+<p class="center"><strong>The big hippopotamus wagon rolled out of the mud,<br /> and on to the firm, hard road.</strong><br /> <a href="#pushed">Page 84</a></p>
+
+<p>But I do not believe they could. And Tum
+Tum did not think he was "smart," either. He<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg&nbsp;85]</a></span> only felt that he had done what he had been told
+to do, even though it was hard work, and did
+hurt his head.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg&nbsp;86]</a></span><br /></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg&nbsp;87]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><a name="pushed" id="pushed"></a>So the hippopotamus wagon was pushed out
+of the mud, and the circus procession went on
+down the road.</p>
+
+<p>It was not long after this that something else
+happened to Tum Tum. The elephant seemed
+to be having many adventures since he came from
+the jungle.</p>
+
+<p>The circus had gone on and on, showing in
+many different places. Tum Tum, in each
+place, had looked to see if Mappo had come
+back, but the little monkey had not. Perhaps
+he was still off in the woods with Squinty, the
+comical pig.</p>
+
+<p>It was a very hot day, and the animals in their
+cages, and the elephants, camels and horses, in
+the tent, had hard work to get a cool breeze or
+find any fresh air to breathe. In the west were
+some black clouds that looked as though they
+would bring a thunder shower.</p>
+
+<p>Just before the show began, Tum Tum was
+taken out of the tent to help push some of the
+heavy wagons into place.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, look at the elephant!" cried some boys
+who had no money to go inside and see the show.
+They were glad to see even an elephant.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum finished his work of pushing the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg&nbsp;88]</a></span>
+wagons into place and his trainer led him toward
+a big tub filled with water, for he knew his pet
+elephant would want a drink, as it was so hot.</p>
+
+<p>Near the water tub stood a peanut wagon, and
+the smell of the roasting nuts made Tum Tum
+hungry for some. But he knew the children in
+the circus would soon give him plenty.</p>
+
+<p>All of a sudden some boys, who were trying to
+get closer to Tum Tum, ran into the peanut
+wagon, and tipped it over. All at once the red-hot
+charcoal that kept the peanuts warm, spilled
+out, and the wagon, and some straw near it,
+caught fire. My, how it blazed!</p>
+
+<p>"Fire! Fire!" cried the peanut man. "Oh,
+somebody put out the fire, or all my peanuts will
+be burned up!"</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum looked at the fire, and wondered if
+he could help put it out.</p>
+
+<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></span>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg&nbsp;89]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IX" id="CHAPTER_IX"></a>CHAPTER IX</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM AND THE BALLOONS</h3>
+
+<p>"Come away, Tum Tum!" cried the
+elephant's keeper. "I don't want you
+getting all excited about a fire, and
+maybe burned. A few peanuts are not worth
+it. We'll let some of the tent men put out the
+fire. Come away!"</p>
+
+<p>But Tum Tum did not want to go away from
+the fire. He was not much afraid of it. Most
+wild animals are afraid of fire, but Tum Tum
+was tame now, and he knew that though fire
+burns, it also does good, in cooking food, even
+for animals. Besides, Tum Tum had seen so
+much of fire, since he had come to the circus, and
+had seen so many flaring lamps at the night performances,
+that he was not afraid of just a blazing
+peanut wagon.</p>
+
+<p>"I'm sorry to see all those peanuts burned up,"
+thought Tum Tum. "I wonder if I can't save
+them&mdash;maybe I'll get some for myself, if I do."</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum thought quickly. There was a
+great deal of excitement around him, for the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg&nbsp;90]</a></span>
+straw was now blazing in many places and the
+peanuts and wagon were all in flames.</p>
+
+<p>"Come away, Tum Tum!" called his keeper.</p>
+
+<p>"Fire! Fire! Fire!" yelled the peanut man.</p>
+
+<p>"Bring water here, somebody!" shouted another
+man.</p>
+
+<p>"Get a pail! Get a pail!" one of the boys
+yelled.</p>
+
+<p>"Call out the fire engines!" said another.</p>
+
+<p>But Tum Tum knew a better way than that.
+His trunk was just like a hose, only, of course,
+not so long. He could suck it up full of water,
+and squirt it out again, just like a pop gun shoots
+out a cork. And that was what Tum Tum did.</p>
+
+<p>He put his trunk into the tub of water, and
+sucked up as much as he could. Then Tum
+Tum aimed his trunk right at the blazing peanut
+wagon and the straw.</p>
+
+<p><a name="water" id="water"></a>Whooo-ish! went the water, as Tum Tum
+squirted it out of his trunk. On the fire it spattered.</p>
+
+<p>Hiss-s-s-s-s! went the fire, like an angry
+snake.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! That's the way to do it, Tum Tum!"
+cried his keeper. "You know how to put out a
+fire! That's the way. You're as good as a fire
+engine yourself!"</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum did not answer. In the first place,
+he could not talk to his keeper except in elephant<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg&nbsp;91]</a></span>
+language, which the circus man did not understand.
+And, in the second place, Tum Tum
+was going to suck up more water in his nose, for
+the fire was not quite out yet. And you know it
+is hard to talk when you have your nose full of
+water, even if you are an elephant.</p>
+
+<p>Whooo-ish! went more water from Tum
+Tum's trunk on the blazing peanut wagon and
+straw.</p>
+
+<p>Hiss! went the fire again, as it felt the wet
+water. Fire does not like water, you know.</p>
+
+<p>"Once more, Tum Tum! One more trunk
+full, and you'll have the fire out!" cried the elephant's
+keeper.</p>
+
+<p>Again Tum Tum dipped his trunk into the
+tub of water, and spurted it on the fire.</p>
+
+<p>This time the fire went out completely. Tum
+Tum had made it so wet, with water from his
+trunk, that it could no longer burn.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, what a smart, good elephant!" cried the
+peanut man. "He saved my wagon from burning
+up. I must give him some peanuts!"</p>
+
+<p>A few of the peanuts were burned, but there
+were plenty left, and, though some of them tasted
+a little like smoke, Tum Tum did not mind that.
+He chewed several bags full&mdash;shells and all&mdash;and
+was hungry for more.</p>
+
+<p>But now it was time to go back into the circus
+tent, and have his handsome blanket put on, to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg&nbsp;92]</a></span>
+take his place in the procession. The boys, one
+of whom had accidentally upset the peanut
+wagon, looked at Tum Tum eagerly.</p>
+
+<p>"Say, he's a smart elephant all right!" he
+cried.</p>
+
+<p>"That's what he is!" said another. "I'd like
+to have him!"</p>
+
+<p>"Huh! What would you do with an elephant?"
+asked his friend. "An elephant would
+eat a ton of hay a day."</p>
+
+<p>"Would he?"</p>
+
+<p>"Sure he would."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, then, I don't want an elephant," said
+the boy. "I guess a dog is good enough for me.
+A dog can eat old bones; he doesn't need a ton
+of hay a day."</p>
+
+<p>The boys helped the peanut man turn his
+wagon right side up, and they also helped him
+gather the scattered peanuts. Then the man
+built another fire, and went around the tent, selling
+his peanuts.</p>
+
+<p>"Tum Tum, you are getting smarter and
+smarter each day," said his keeper, as he led him
+back to get ready for the parade. "I am proud
+of you. You are the best elephant in the circus."</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum heard what was said of him, but
+he only flapped his big ears, that were nearly the
+size of washtubs. Then he stood in line with his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg&nbsp;93]</a></span>
+companions, and ate the peanuts and popcorn
+balls the children fed to him over the ropes.</p>
+
+<p>"My, I s'pose Tum Tum will be so stuck up,
+and proud, that he won't want to speak to us,
+after he has done so many wonderful things,"
+said one of the jealous elephants. "He pushed
+the wagon out of the mud, and now he has put
+out a peanut wagon fire. Some elephants have
+all the luck in this world."</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum's eyes twinkled, but he said nothing.
+He just ate the popcorn balls and peanuts. But
+he was not at all proud or stuck up.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was now such a gentle and tame
+elephant, that children could ride on his back.
+At first, some of the circus performers, who had
+their children with them, let them get up on
+Tum Tum, and then, when his keeper found that
+Tum Tum did not mind, some of the boys and
+girls who came to see the show each day were
+allowed to ride. Up and down the tent they
+went on Tum Tum's back, sitting in the little
+house that was strapped fast to him.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was led about by his keeper when
+the children thus rode, and very glad Tum Tum
+was to give the boys and girls this fun, for he
+liked children very much.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum would have been very glad if
+Mappo, the merry monkey, had come back to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg&nbsp;94]</a></span>
+ride on his back, as he did sometimes. But
+Mappo was far away; where, Tum Tum did not
+know.</p>
+
+<p>Nearly every day something new happened to
+Tum Tum in the circus. Every day he saw new
+faces, new boys and girls and once in a while,
+he did some new tricks. He had enough to eat,
+a good place to sleep, he did not have to work
+very hard, and, best of all, he was in no danger.</p>
+
+<p>So, altogether, Tum Tum liked the circus life
+much better than he had liked being in the
+jungle. Still, now and again, he would wish
+himself back in the cool, dark woods, smashing
+through the thick bushes, and breaking down, or
+pulling up, big trees by their roots.</p>
+
+<p>In the circus were some men from India,
+where Tum Tum had worked in the lumber
+yard, piling up teakwood logs, and these Indians
+could talk the language spoken in India&mdash;the
+man-language Tum Tum had first learned. He
+liked to have them come to see him, rub his
+trunk, and talk to him in their queer words.</p>
+
+<p>One day another adventure happened to Tum
+Tum. He was out in front of the circus tent,
+after he had helped roll some of the heavy animal
+wagons into place, when he saw some children,
+with their papa, coming to the circus.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, papa!" cried a little boy, "couldn't we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg&nbsp;95]</a></span>
+ride on the elephant's back?" and he was so excited,
+this little boy was, that he danced up and
+down with his red balloon. All the children
+had these toy balloons.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, I don't believe you could ride on the elephant's
+back," said the little boy's papa.</p>
+
+<p>"They can, if you will let them," said Tum
+Tum's keeper. "My elephant is very kind and
+gentle, and many children ride on him. I will
+hold them on, if you are willing."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, let us, papa!" cried a little girl.</p>
+
+<p>"All right, I don't mind," he said.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was led close to a wagon, from
+which the children could easily get into the little
+house on his back. In that they sat with their
+papa and the keeper, and around the circus
+grounds they went. It was not yet time for the
+show, and Tum Tum did not have to go in.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, what a lovely ride!" cried the little boy,
+when it was over. "Thank you so much!"</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was glad the children had enjoyed
+it.</p>
+
+<p>Then, as the boy and girl got down from the
+elephant's back, their toy balloons slipped out of
+their hands and floated off through the air.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, there goes my balloon!" cried the little
+girl.</p>
+
+<p>"And there goes mine, too!" cried the little
+boy. "Oh, papa!"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg&nbsp;96]</a></span>"Never mind, I'll get you some others," said
+the man.</p>
+
+<p>"But I'd rather have that one," the little boy
+said, half crying.</p>
+
+<p>"I would, too," added his sister.</p>
+
+<p>Just then the wind blew the two balloons into
+the top of a tall tree. It was a tall, slender tree,
+too little for any one to climb up, or put a ladder
+against.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, now we can never get our balloons!"
+sobbed the little girl, as the toys bobbed about in
+the wind, the strings fast to a tree branch. Then
+Tum Tum made up his mind, just as he had done
+at the peanut fire.</p>
+
+<p>"I'll get those balloons back for the children,"
+thought the big, kind, jolly elephant.</p>
+
+<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></span>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg&nbsp;97]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_X" id="CHAPTER_X"></a>CHAPTER X</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM AND THE LEMONADE</h3>
+
+<p>The little boy and girl, who had ridden
+on the back of Tum Tum, the jolly elephant,
+stretched up their hands toward
+the balloons that had caught in the tree. They
+even got up again into the little house, and, standing
+up, tried to reach their floating toys.</p>
+
+<p>"Sit down! Sit down!" called their father.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, you might fall," said Tum Tum's
+trainer, or keeper, who was also riding in the
+little house on the elephant's back.</p>
+
+<p>"But we want our balloons!" cried the little
+boy.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, our nice toy balloons!" said the little
+girl, and there were tears in her eyes. Tum
+Tum felt sorry for her. He did not like to see
+little girls cry.</p>
+
+<p>"I must get those balloons back for them,"
+Tum Tum said to himself, over and over again.</p>
+
+<p>"I'll get you other balloons," said the children's
+papa again, trying to make them feel<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg&nbsp;98]</a></span>
+happier. But the boy and girl wanted the same
+balloons they had had first.</p>
+
+<p>"Now if Mappo were only here," thought
+Tum Tum, "he could easily climb up that tree,
+even if it is a slender one, and will easily bend.
+For Mappo is not very heavy, and he could go
+away up to the top of the tree.</p>
+
+<p>"But no one else can, and none of the monkeys
+but Mappo is smart enough to do it. So I'll
+have to get the balloons myself."</p>
+
+<p>And how do you think Tum Tum did it? Of
+course he could not climb a tree&mdash;no elephant
+could, even if it were a big tree. But Tum Tum
+was very strong, and, just as he had often done
+in the jungle, he wrapped his long, rubbery hose-like
+nose, or trunk, around the tree.</p>
+
+<p>"Here, Tum Tum, what are you doing?"
+called his keeper.</p>
+
+<p>"Umph! Umph! Wumph!" Tum Tum answered.
+That meant: "You just watch me, if
+you please, and you'll see."</p>
+
+<p>Then Tum Tum just pulled and pulled as hard
+on that tree, and up he pulled it by the roots.
+<a name="ground" id="ground"></a>Right out of the ground the big elephant pulled
+the tree, and then, holding it in his strong trunk,
+he tipped it over so the top branches were close
+to the children on his back.</p>
+
+<p>And, tangled in the branches were the cords of
+the toy balloons, that still bobbed about.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg&nbsp;99]</a></span></p>
+
+<a name="Tree" id="Tree"></a><span class="toill"><a href="#Illus">Illus</a></span>
+<p class="center"><a name="image-7" id="image-7"><!-- Image 7 --></a>
+<img src="images/illus-100s.png" class="png" height="667" width="400" alt="Right out of the ground the big elephant pulled the tree. Page 98." title="Right out of the ground the big elephant pulled the tree. Page 98."  /></p>
+<p class="image"><a name="pull" id="pull" href="images/illus-100x.png" class="image">
+View larger image</a></p>
+
+<p class="center"><strong>Right out of the ground the big elephant pulled the tree.</strong><br /> <a href="#ground">Page 98</a></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg&nbsp;100]</a></span><br /></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg&nbsp;101]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Oh, look!" cried the boy. "Here are our
+balloons, sister!"</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, so they are!" exclaimed the little girl.
+"Oh, what a good elephant he is to get our
+balloons back for us!"</p>
+
+<p>"I should say he was!" cried the papa. "That
+is a smart elephant you have," he said to the
+keeper.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, Tum Tum is very good and smart," said
+the circus man. He reached over, loosed the
+strings of the balloons from the tree branch, and
+gave the ends of the cords to the children.</p>
+
+<p>"Now you may let go of the tree, Tum Tum,"
+the man said to the elephant, and Tum Tum
+dropped the tree on the ground.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, papa, the elephant was so good to us,
+can't we buy him a bag of peanuts?" asked the
+little girl.</p>
+
+<p>"I guess so," answered her papa, with a laugh.</p>
+
+<p>"And may I buy him some popcorn balls?"
+asked the boy.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, yes, but I hope Tum Tum doesn't become
+ill from all that sweet stuff," said the papa.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, I guess he won't&mdash;he's used to being fed
+by the children," the circus man said.</p>
+
+<p>When Tum Tum heard the boy and girl talking
+about getting him good things to eat, the big
+elephant felt very glad. For he was such a big
+fellow that he was nearly always hungry, and, no<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg&nbsp;102]</a></span>
+matter how many peanuts or popcorn balls he
+had, he was always willing to eat more.</p>
+
+<p>It was now nearly time for the circus to begin,
+and Tum Tum was led back toward the tent,
+the children still riding on his back, holding
+tightly to the strings of their balloons. They
+were not going to lose them a second time, if
+they could help it.</p>
+
+<p>Near the tent was the same peanut man whose
+stand had nearly burned up the time Tum Tum
+put out the blaze with water from his trunk.
+The boy and girl bought two bags full of peanuts
+from this man, and from another man they
+bought popcorn balls. These they fed to Tum
+Tum, who reached out his trunk for them, and
+put them into his mouth.</p>
+
+<p>"Good-by, Tum Tum!" called the little girl
+to him, waving one hand, while in the other she
+held her balloon.</p>
+
+<p>"Good-by, elephant!" called the little boy, also
+waving his hand. "I'll see you in the circus,"
+he added.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum waved his trunk. He was too busy
+chewing popcorn and peanuts to speak, even if
+he could have talked boy and girl language,
+which he could not.</p>
+
+<p>Later on, in the show, Tum Tum, as he went
+through his tricks, saw the little boy and girl sit<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg&nbsp;103]</a></span>ting
+near the ring, with their papa, watching the
+animals and performers.</p>
+
+<p>Two or three days after that something else
+happened to Tum Tum, and it made him very
+happy.</p>
+
+<p>He was in the tent, after the show, eating his
+hay, and blowing dust over his back now and
+then to keep away the flies and mosquitoes, when,
+all of a sudden, in came a monkey. Tum Tum
+gave one look at the monkey, and then another
+look.</p>
+
+<p>"Why&mdash;why!" cried Tum Tum, in elephant
+language. "That looks like Mappo."</p>
+
+<p>"I am Mappo!" cried the little chap. "Oh,
+don't let him get me!"</p>
+
+<p>"Let who get you?" cried Tum Tum. "What
+is the matter?" for Mappo looked very frightened.</p>
+
+<p>"The hand-organ man is after me!" chattered
+Mappo, and with that he gave a jump, and
+landed right upon Tum Tum's broad back.</p>
+
+<p>"Don't be afraid," said the elephant. "No
+one will get you while I am here, Mappo," and
+Tum Tum swung his long trunk.</p>
+
+<p>Then in came the hand-organ man after the
+monkey, just as I have told you he did in the
+book about Mappo. But the circus men and
+Tum Tum would not let Mappo go. And Tum<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg&nbsp;104]</a></span>
+Tum looked so big and fierce and strong that
+the hand-organ man was afraid to try to take
+Mappo away.</p>
+
+<p>So that is how Mappo came back to the circus
+again, after having had many adventures. He
+told Tum Tum all about them.</p>
+
+<p>"Are you going to run away again?" asked
+Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"No, I guess not," answered Mappo, hanging
+by his tail.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum was glad Mappo had come back,
+for the big elephant was lonesome for his little
+friend, and I guess Mappo was also lonesome
+for Tum Tum. At any rate, the two were soon
+as good friends as before.</p>
+
+<p>The show went on from town to town, and it
+was nearing the time for the circus season to be
+over. Then the animals would be taken back
+to the big barn, there to stay all winter, until
+spring and summer should come again.</p>
+
+<p>One day a bad man came into the tent where
+the elephants were standing, eating their hay,
+and held out something in his hand. Tum Tum,
+and the other elephants, stretched out their
+trunks, for it seemed as if the man had something
+good for them to eat. And Tum Tum, being the
+nearest, reached it first.</p>
+
+<p>The thing the man held out was in a bag, and
+it smelled like peanuts. In fact, there were a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg&nbsp;105]</a></span>
+few peanuts, and shells, in the bag but, besides
+that, there were also some sour lemons, which
+Tum Tum did not like at all. But he had
+chewed on them before he knew what they were,
+not stopping to open the bag the bad man gave
+him.</p>
+
+<p>As he felt the sour juice running down his
+throat, Tum Tum gave a squeal. He was angry
+at the man who had played this trick on him.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! Ha!" laughed the man. "I fooled you
+that time, Mr. Elephant. How do you like
+lemons?"</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum did not answer.</p>
+
+<p>He just reached his trunk in his mouth, and
+pulled out the sour stuff, and threw it away.
+The man laughed very hard at his mean trick,
+and one of the keepers said to him:</p>
+
+<p>"You had better look out. Elephants have
+good memories, and if ever you get near Tum
+Tum, where he can reach you, you may be sorry
+for what you did."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, I'm not afraid of an elephant!" cried
+the man with another laugh.</p>
+
+<p>"If ever I can reach that man with my trunk,
+I'll make him wish he'd never given me lemons,"
+thought Tum Tum. But, try as he did, he could
+not stretch himself far enough to reach the man,
+for there were chains about the legs of the elephant.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg&nbsp;106]</a></span>Later on that day, the same man came walking
+past the elephants in the animal tent, after the
+circus was over. I guess he had forgotten about
+the trick he played. But Tum Tum and the
+other elephants had not forgotten.</p>
+
+<p>All of a sudden Maggo, the elephant standing
+next to Tum Tum, saw the bad man, and, reaching
+out her trunk, Maggo caught him around
+the waist, and lifted him off his feet.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh! Oh! Put me down! Oh, an elephant
+has me!" cried the man.</p>
+
+<p>Instantly there was great excitement in the
+animal tent. The people yelled, and the trainers
+came running over to see what was the matter.
+They saw the man lifted high in the air in Maggo's
+trunk.</p>
+
+<p>"Put him down! Put him down at once!"
+cried Maggo's keeper.</p>
+
+<p>But Maggo was not going to do that at once.</p>
+
+<p>"Now is your chance, Tum Tum," said
+Maggo. "I'll hold this bad man, who gave you
+lemons instead of peanuts, and you can hit him
+with your trunk."</p>
+
+<p>"No, I'll not do that," said Tum Tum, who
+was very gentle. "If I did, I might hurt him,
+for I strike very hard with my trunk. But I
+will fix him, so he will not play any more tricks
+on elephants."</p>
+
+<p>Then Tum Tum dipped his trunk in a tub of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg&nbsp;107]</a></span>
+water near by, and, suddenly, spurted it all over
+the man, making him as wet as if he had gone in
+swimming.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, my! Oh, dear! Oh, stop it!" cried the
+man excitedly, with the water squirting all over
+him.</p>
+
+<p>"Let him down now, Maggo," said Tum Tum,
+with a queer little twinkle, like laughter, in his
+eyes. "I guess he won't want to play any more
+tricks."</p>
+
+<p>Maggo set down the dripping man, who was
+glad enough to run away. He did not once look
+back.</p>
+
+<p>"It served you right, for giving Tum Tum
+lemons," said a keeper. "Some elephants would
+have done worse than just to squirt water on
+you."</p>
+
+<p>One afternoon it was very hot in the circus.
+It was so hot that the sides of the animal tent
+were lowered to let in the air, but, even at that
+it was not very cool.</p>
+
+<p>"Don't you wish we were back in the jungle,
+near some river, where we could wade in and
+float until the sun went down?" asked Maggo
+of Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed I do," was the answer. "But there
+is no use wishing."</p>
+
+<p>"It doesn't seem so," spoke Maggo, and she
+fanned herself with her large ears, in a way ele<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg&nbsp;108]</a></span>phants
+have. "I wish I had something cool to
+drink," went on Maggo.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, a nice, cool drink would be just fine,"
+said Tum Tum. "But I do not see where we
+are going to get it," he went on.</p>
+
+<p>Then he happened to look over the side of the
+tent, which had been let down low, to allow the
+breeze to come in. What Tum Tum saw made
+him feel very good.</p>
+
+<p>Just outside the tent, was a lemonade stand,
+and on the ground by it was a big washtub full of
+pink lemonade, the kind they always sell at circuses.
+Tum Tum stretched out his trunk, and
+found that he could easily reach the pink lemonade.</p>
+
+<p>"I say, Maggo," called Tum Tum, in an elephant
+whisper. "I know how to get a cool
+drink."</p>
+
+<p>"How?" asked Maggo. "Now, don't play
+any joke on me. I could not bear that. I am so
+thirsty!"</p>
+
+<p>"No, this isn't a joke," said Tum Tum. "At
+least it isn't a joke on you. Come, we shall both
+have a drink. Put your trunk out over the side
+of the tent. On the ground outside is a big
+washtub, full of pink lemonade. We can easily
+suck it up through our trunks and drink it.
+Come on, I'll show you how to do it."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, fine!" cried Maggo. Then she and Tum<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg&nbsp;109]</a></span>
+Tum, not thinking it was wrong, put their trunks
+down in the pink lemonade, and sucked it all out,
+putting it into their mouths.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, but that's good!" cried Tum Tum, for
+the lemonade happened to be very sweet.</p>
+
+<p>"It certainly is," said Maggo. "I wish there
+were more."</p>
+
+<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></span>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg&nbsp;110]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XI" id="CHAPTER_XI"></a>CHAPTER XI</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM AND THE TIGER</h3>
+
+<p>The two elephants sucked up all the pink
+lemonade from the washtub near the
+stand outside the tent. Then they felt
+much better, and cooler. They did not mind the
+heat so much.</p>
+
+<p>But, in a little while, there was a great sound
+of some one shouting and calling outside the tent.
+It was the voice of the man who had made the
+pink lemonade to sell to those who came to see
+the circus.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, my lemonade!" cried the man. "My
+pink lemonade! It is all gone! Some one
+drank it all up, or else it leaked out of the tub!
+What shall I do? What shall I do?"</p>
+
+<p>The man ran up and down, trying to find his
+lemonade, but it was all gone.</p>
+
+<p>"Say, Tum Tum," said Maggo, "was that his
+lemonade we drank?"</p>
+
+<p>"I&mdash;I guess it must have been," said Tum
+Tum. "But I didn't know it belonged to anybody.
+I thought it was just standing there in
+the tub, and that we might as well take it as anyone
+else."</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg&nbsp;111]</a></span>"Well, it's too bad if we've taken the poor
+man's lemonade, that he was going to sell for
+money," said Maggo.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, it is," agreed Tum Tum. "But we can't
+help it now."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," spoke Maggo. "We can't do anything."</p>
+
+<p>Just then the man who owned the lemonade
+looked up, and saw the trunks of the two elephants
+sticking out over the top of the tent. The
+man guessed what had happened.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! They took my lemonade!" the man
+cried. "They sucked it up through their trunks.
+Oh, they took my lemonade, and I'll make the
+circus pay for it!"</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum's keeper heard the noise the man
+was making, and came running up.</p>
+
+<p>"What is the matter?" asked the circus man.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, yoy! Yoy!" cried the man. "Your elephants
+took all my pink lemonade, from the
+washtub where I had ice in it! They sucked it
+up in their rubber-hose trunks!"</p>
+
+<p>"Tum Tum, did you and Maggo do that?"
+asked the keeper.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum could not answer, of course. But
+the circus man looked at Tum Tum's long, white
+ivory tusks, and on one of them were some
+splashes of pink lemonade.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, Tum Tum, you did it," said the man.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg&nbsp;112]</a></span>
+"Well, I won't punish you, for you did not know
+any better, I suppose."</p>
+
+<p>"But what about my lemonade?" asked the
+peddler. "Don't I get paid for it?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, I guess the circus will have to pay you,"
+spoke the keeper. "After all, I am glad Tum
+Tum had it, for he has been a good elephant, and
+so has Maggo. I am glad they had it!"</p>
+
+<p>The other elephants wished they had had some
+also, but there was not enough to go around.
+The keeper paid the man for the lemonade the
+elephants had taken, and the man made another
+washtub full. But this he took care to place far
+enough away from the tent, so the elephants
+could not reach over and suck it up in their
+trunks.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, we made a lot of trouble, even though
+we did not mean to," said Tum Tum to Maggo
+that evening, when they were cooling off after
+the show. "But that lemonade tasted good,
+didn't it?"</p>
+
+<p>"It certainly did," said Maggo with a sigh that
+almost shook the tent.</p>
+
+<p>That night Tum Tum, and all the elephants,
+had to work very hard, pushing the heavy animal
+cages down the road to where they were loaded
+on the railroad cars to go to a distant city. As
+Tum Tum was pushing the cage of Sharp Tooth,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg&nbsp;113]</a></span>
+the big tiger, he heard that striped animal talking
+with Roarer, the lion.</p>
+
+<p>"Can you hear me, Roarer?" asked Sharp
+Tooth, as her cage was pushed alongside that of
+the King of Beasts.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, I can hear you, Sharp Tooth," said
+Roarer. "What is it you want to say?"</p>
+
+<p>At this Tum Tum lifted wide his ears away
+from his sides, so he could hear better.</p>
+
+<p>"I think something is going to happen,"
+mused Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>Then Tum Tum made up his mind that he
+would listen and find out what it was. He knew
+the tiger and lion were dangerous animals.
+They had never become tame, and were always
+trying to find a way to escape, or get loose from
+their cages.</p>
+
+<p>"And if that's what they're trying this time,
+I'll stop them if I can," thought Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>So, while he was pushing first the tiger, and
+then the lion cage along, he listened, though he
+pretended not to hear anything.</p>
+
+<p>"What is it you want to tell me, Sharp Tooth?"
+asked Roarer.</p>
+
+<p>"Listen carefully," answered the tiger. "Can
+you hear me?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, yes," growled the lion again. "What is
+it? Be quick!"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg&nbsp;114]</a></span>"I know a way to get out of our cages," said
+the tiger. "If I tell you, will you come with
+me? Then we can run off to the woods, and live
+there until we can find our way back to the
+jungle. Will you come with me, Roarer?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," said the lion, "I will. Tell me how to
+get out of my cage and back to the jungle."</p>
+
+<p>The lion and tiger did not know that the
+jungle, where they had lived, was many miles
+away, across the big ocean.</p>
+
+<p>"This is how we can get out," said Sharp
+Tooth. "You know when the man cleans our
+cages each night, he leaves the door unlocked so
+the feeding man can follow and put meat in
+easily."</p>
+
+<p>"Does he do that?" asked the lion. "I never
+noticed."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, he always does that," said the tiger.
+"For a little while each evening, just before we
+are fed, the doors of our cages are not locked.
+We can easily push them open, before the meat
+man comes to feed us and closes them. We can
+get out then."</p>
+
+<p>"But if we go before we get our meat, we shall
+be hungry," roared the lion.</p>
+
+<p>"What of it, silly?" cried Sharp Tooth. "Is
+it not better to get away, and be hungry for a
+little while, than to stay here shut up in a cage all
+your life?"</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg&nbsp;115]</a></span>"Well, I suppose it is," said the lion with a
+big sigh. "Then we are to come out of our cages
+to-night?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, soon after the man has finished cleaning
+them, and has left the door unlocked. He does
+not know that I know about the door. I suppose
+he imagines I think it is as tightly shut as ever.
+But it isn't!"</p>
+
+<p>"Good!" cried the lion. "Then we'll run
+away! But when?"</p>
+
+<p>"To-night," hissed the tiger. "Be quiet now,
+some one may hear us."</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! Some one has already heard you,"
+thought Tum Tum. "So you are going to get
+away to-night, are you? Well, not if I know
+it! I'll stop you all right! It would never do
+to have you loose in the woods; all the people
+would be scared. Let me see, how can I stop
+you?"</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum wished he could speak man-talk, so
+he could tell the keepers what the lion and tiger
+were going to do. But Tum Tum could speak
+only animal language.</p>
+
+<p>"But I can stay near the tiger's cage, and when
+he does get out, I can grab him in my trunk, before
+he has time to scratch me, and push him
+back in his cage again," thought Tum Tum.
+"By that time the keepers will come, and shut
+the cage doors. Yes, I'll do that with Sharp<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg&nbsp;116]</a></span>
+Tooth; but what about Roarer? I need help
+there. I'll get Maggo."</p>
+
+<p>So Tum Tum told Maggo, about the lion and
+tiger going to escape from the circus.</p>
+
+<p>"And if you'll stand in front of the lion's cage,
+he won't dare run very far," said Tum Tum to
+Maggo. "If you'll look after the lion, I'll look
+after the tiger."</p>
+
+<p>"All right," said Maggo, "I shall. It would
+not be right for those fierce animals to get away."</p>
+
+<p>Toward evening, when the show was over for
+the afternoon, Maggo and Tum Tum were allowed
+to roam about the animal tent a little, the
+chains being taken off their feet.</p>
+
+<p>"Now's our time, Maggo," whispered Tum
+Tum. "You go over by the lion's cage, and I'll
+stay by the tiger's."</p>
+
+<p>"All right, I will," said Maggo.</p>
+
+<p>Over she went to stand in front of the lion's
+cage. The cleaning man had been around, and
+the doors of the cages were open.</p>
+
+<p>Then, before Tum Tum could get to the
+tiger's cage, that big, striped beast gave one blow
+with his paw on the unlocked door, pushing it
+open. He sprang out, crying:</p>
+
+<p>"Come on, Roarer! Come on with me. I'm
+out! Jump out through the door and we'll go
+to the jungle!"</p>
+
+<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Contents</a></span>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg&nbsp;117]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XII" id="CHAPTER_XII"></a>CHAPTER XII</h2>
+
+<h3>TUM TUM'S BRAVE DEED</h3>
+
+<p>Tum Tum tried to get in front of Sharp
+Tooth and stop the tiger from getting
+out of his cage, but the big elephant
+was not quick enough. Besides, the tiger moved
+so swiftly, that hardly any one could have
+stopped him.</p>
+
+<p>"Come back here! Come back!" cried Tum
+Tum, when he saw Sharp Tooth running out of
+the tent.</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed I will not! I'm off to the jungle!"
+snarled the striped beast. "Come on, Roarer!"
+she called.</p>
+
+<p>But Roarer could not, for Maggo, the big elephant,
+had placed herself in front of the door
+of his cage, and was leaning against it. And
+Maggo was so big and heavy that Roarer could
+not push open the iron-barred door.</p>
+
+<p>"Get out of my way!" cried the lion to the elephant.</p>
+
+<p>"No, no! I will not!" answered brave Maggo.</p>
+
+<p>Then the lion put his paws through the bars
+of the cage and scratched Maggo, but the lady<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg&nbsp;118]</a></span>
+elephant did not mind that. She made a loud
+noise through her trunk, and this call brought
+the keepers on the run. One of them saw what
+the matter was.</p>
+
+<p>"Quick!" cried this keeper. "The lion's cage
+door is not fastened. He is trying to get out,
+but the elephant is holding him in. Quick!
+Fasten shut the door!"</p>
+
+<p>Then the circus men, very quickly, made the
+door tightly shut, and that was the end of Roarer's
+chances for getting out. Oh, but that lion
+was angry!</p>
+
+<p>He sprang about the cage, roaring loudly, but
+he could not get out to go and join Sharp Tooth,
+the tiger.</p>
+
+<p>"Some of you put some salve on the elephant's
+scratches," said the head circus man, "while I
+look to see if any other animals have gotten
+loose."</p>
+
+<p>Then he saw the open door of the tiger's cage,
+and he cried:</p>
+
+<p>"Sharp Tooth is loose! We must go and find
+that tiger!"</p>
+
+<p>Then some one else called:</p>
+
+<p>"And Tum Tum is gone also!"</p>
+
+<p>"What, Tum Tum gone!" cried the elephant
+trainer. "That's so," he said, as he saw that the
+place where Tum Tum used to stand was empty.</p>
+
+<p>"I wonder where Tum Tum can be?" said the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg&nbsp;119]</a></span>
+keeper. Maggo wished she could tell how Tum
+Tum had tried to stop the tiger from running
+away, but how the big elephant had not been
+in time. However, the head keeper must have
+guessed it.</p>
+
+<p>"I don't believe Tum Tum ran away," he said.
+"He must have gone out after the tiger. Come
+on, we must find them both."</p>
+
+<p>As it happened, the circus performance was
+over, so there were no boys or girls, or men and
+women, to be frightened by hearing that the
+tiger was loose. Sharp Tooth was so excited at
+getting out of the cage, that she did not try to
+bite anybody. She slipped out of the tent, and
+ran toward some woods near the circus lot.</p>
+
+<p>But Tum Tum was right after her. The tiger
+could go along very fast, but the elephant could
+travel almost as quickly, and he kept right behind
+the striped beast.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! Go on back! Stop following me!"
+snarled Sharp Tooth.</p>
+
+<p>"No, I'll not," answered the brave elephant.
+"I want you to come back to the circus."</p>
+
+<p>"I'll never come!" snapped the tiger.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, yes, you will," the elephant said.</p>
+
+<p>The tiger kept on, and Tum Tum followed.
+Finally the tiger ran up a tree and crouched out
+on a big limb.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! Now you can't follow me!" she said to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg&nbsp;120]</a></span>
+the elephant. "You can't climb up this tree!"</p>
+
+<p>"No, but I can stay here until you come down,"
+said Tum Tum, "and that's what I'll do."</p>
+
+<p>"Bah!" snarled the tiger. "Go away and let
+me alone!"</p>
+
+<p>But Tum Tum would not. He <a name="stayed" id="stayed"></a>stayed under
+the tree where the tiger was, for he knew that
+soon the circus men would come to hunt for
+Sharp Tooth, to put her back in her cage.</p>
+
+<p>And, surely enough, that is just what happened.
+The head keeper could easily see which
+way the tiger and elephant had gone, for, though
+Sharp Tooth did not make much of a track,
+Tum Tum did. An elephant cannot crash and
+push his way through the bushes and trees without
+making a broad path. And this path the
+circus men followed. Soon they came to the
+tree in which Sharp Tooth was crouching.</p>
+
+<p>"Here she is!" cried one. "Bring up the
+cage!"</p>
+
+<p>The tiger's empty cage was wheeled under the
+tree, and the door was open. Inside was put a
+nice piece of meat, such as the tiger loved, and
+she was very hungry now.</p>
+
+<p>"You had better go down in your cage and behave
+yourself," said Tum Tum.</p>
+
+<p>"No, I will not!" snarled the tiger. But
+when the circus men snapped their whips, and
+fired off guns, and brought blazing torches, <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg&nbsp;121]</a></span>Sharp Tooth was afraid. Besides, she was very
+hungry, and as the lion had not run away with
+her, she was afraid she could never get to the
+jungle alone.</p>
+
+<a name="Tiger" id="Tiger"></a><span class="toill"><a href="#Illus">Illus</a></span>
+<p class="center"><a name="image-8" id="image-8"><!-- Image 8 --></a>
+<img src="images/illus-122s.png" class="png" height="665" width="400" alt="He stayed under the tree where the tiger was, for he knew that soon the circus men would come to hunt for Sharp Tooth. Page 120"
+title="He stayed under the tree where the tiger was, for he knew that soon the circus men would come to hunt for sharp tooth."  /></p>
+<p class="image"><a name="cat" id="cat" href="images/illus-122x.png" class="image">
+View larger image</a></p>
+
+<p class="center"><strong>He stayed under the tree where the tiger was, for he knew that<br />
+soon the circus men would come to hunt for sharp tooth.</strong><br /><a href="#stayed">Page 120</a></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg&nbsp;122]</a></span><br /></p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg&nbsp;123]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<p>"I guess I had better go down in my cage,"
+said the tiger. "But," she added to Tum Tum,
+"if ever I get a chance to scratch you, I will."</p>
+
+<p>Into the cage she jumped, and the circus men
+slammed the door shut. The tiger was caught
+again.</p>
+
+<p>"Good old boy, Tum Tum!" called the elephant's
+keeper to him, as they were going back
+to the animal tent. "You saved the tiger from
+getting away, and that was a good thing, for
+Sharp Tooth might have bitten someone. You
+are a very good elephant!"</p>
+
+<p>This made Tum Tum feel quite happy, more
+happy even than did the nice big lumps of sugar,
+and loaves of bread, he was given for his supper
+as a reward.</p>
+
+<p>For you know animals like to be spoken kindly
+to, as well we do, boys and girls. You just try
+it with your dog. Speak harshly to him, or
+scold him, and see how he cringes down, and
+tucks his tail between his legs. He knows when
+you are not kind to him.</p>
+
+<p>And then try speaking nicely. Tell him what
+a good dog he is, and how much you like him,
+and see what a change there is.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg&nbsp;124]</a></span>He will jump up, and wag his tail, and bark,
+he is so glad because you are speaking kindly to
+him. And, if you let him, he will try to kiss you
+with his red tongue. Oh, yes, indeed, animals
+know a great deal more than most persons think
+they do.</p>
+
+<p>So that was how Sharp Tooth got out of her
+cage, and how Tum Tum helped to catch her
+again. After that the animals' cages were never
+left open, even for a second.</p>
+
+<p>"Did you get very scratched?" asked Tum
+Tum of Maggo, when everything was once more
+quiet in the animal tent.</p>
+
+<p>"No, not much," answered the lady elephant.</p>
+
+<p>"I'm sorry I was not quick enough for the
+tiger," said Tum Tum. "Never mind, it is all
+over now."</p>
+
+<p>Then the two elephant friends stood side by
+side in the tent and ate hay and talked to each
+other in elephant language.</p>
+
+<p>And now my story of Tum Tum is drawing to
+a close. I shall tell you one more thing that
+happened to him, and then I am finished.</p>
+
+<p>One day the circus was showing near a large
+city, and great crowds of people came out to see
+it. There were boys and girls&mdash;more than Tum
+Tum had ever seen before. The big tent was
+full.</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum did all his tricks as best he could.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg&nbsp;125]</a></span>
+He stood on his head, and on his hind legs. He
+sat up at the table, and made believe eat a meal.
+In this trick Mappo, the merry monkey, had a
+part, for he sat up with Tum Tum, and they both
+ate.</p>
+
+<p>When the circus was almost over, and Tum
+Tum had played soldier, and marched out of the
+ring carrying Mappo on his back, while Mappo
+waved a flag, the little monkey, who could see out
+of the top of the tent said:</p>
+
+<p>"Tum Tum, we are going to have a big thunder
+shower. I can see the lightning and the
+black clouds."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, it will not hurt us," said Tum Tum.
+"We often used to have thunder storms in the
+jungle, and here we are under a tent."</p>
+
+<p>Then, suddenly the storm came. It grew very
+black, and the thunder and lightning frightened
+the big crowds in the circus tent. It rained very
+hard, too, so that some of the tent ropes were
+made loose and slipped.</p>
+
+<p>"Run out, quick!" suddenly called a man.
+"The tent is going to fall on us! Run, everybody!"</p>
+
+<p>"No! Sit still! Keep your seats!" the circus
+men cried, but the crowd was frightened and
+ran.</p>
+
+<p>Just then, one of the big poles of the tent began
+to fall.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg&nbsp;126]</a></span>"That pole must not fall!" cried Tum Tum's
+keeper. "But how can I hold it up? I am not
+strong enough."</p>
+
+<p>Then he looked at Tum Tum, the big elephant.</p>
+
+<p>"Ha! Tum Tum will hold up the pole, until
+all the people get out of the tent!" cried the circus
+man. "Here, Tum Tum," he called.
+"Hold up this pole."</p>
+
+<p>Tum Tum knew what was wanted of him.
+He pushed his strong head against the pole, and
+it did not fall over. Tum Tum held it up, and
+the tent did not come down.</p>
+
+<p>"Tum Tum, you are a fine elephant!" cried his
+master. "I love you!"</p>
+
+<p>The rain was soon over, and that night, after
+the evening performance, the circus went on to
+another town.</p>
+
+<p>That brings me to the end of Tum Tum's adventures.
+But I have some stories about other
+animals, and in the next book I'll tell you about
+"Don, a Runaway Dog; His Many Adventures."</p>
+
+<p>As for Tum Tum, he lived in the circus for
+many, many years, growing older and stronger
+and wiser every day, and everybody thought he
+was the jolliest elephant in all the world.</p>
+
+<h4>THE END</h4>
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg&nbsp;127]</a></span></p>
+
+<h5>STORIES FOR CHILDREN</h5>
+<p class="center">(From four to nine years old)</p>
+
+<h4>THE KNEETIME ANIMAL STORIES</h4>
+
+<h5>BY RICHARD BARNUM</h5>
+<br />
+
+<div class="bbox" style="width: 500px;">
+<div class="imgl">
+<img border="0" src="images/illus-072.png" height="110" width="80" alt="Book Illustration" />
+</div>
+
+<p>In all nursery literature animals have
+played a conspicuous part; and the reason
+is obvious for nothing entertains a child
+more than the antics of an animal. These
+stories abound in amusing incidents such
+as children adore and the characters are
+so full of life, so appealing to a child's
+imagination, that none will be satisfied until
+they have met all of their favorites&mdash;Squinty,
+Slicko, Mappo, Tum Tum, etc.</p>
+
+<ol class="decimal">
+<li class="one">SQUINTY, THE COMICAL PIG.</li>
+<li class="one">SLICKO, THE JUMPING SQUIRREL.</li>
+<li class="one">MAPPO, THE MERRY MONKEY.</li>
+<li class="one">TUM TUM, THE JOLLY ELEPHANT.</li>
+<li class="one">DON, A RUNAWAY DOG.</li>
+<li class="one">DIDO, THE DANCING BEAR.</li>
+<li class="one">BLACKIE, A LOST CAT.</li>
+<li class="one">FLOP EAR, THE FUNNY RABBIT.</li>
+<li class="one">TINKLE, THE TRICK PONY.</li>
+<li class="one">LIGHTFOOT, THE LEAPING GOAT.</li>
+<li class="one">CHUNKY, THE HAPPY HIPPO.</li>
+<li class="one">SHARP EYES, THE SILVER FOX.</li>
+</ol>
+</div>
+<hr />
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant, by Richard Barnum
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant
+       His Many Adventures
+
+Author: Richard Barnum
+
+Illustrator: Harriet H. Tooker
+
+Release Date: May 24, 2007 [EBook #21599]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TUM TUM, THE JOLLY ELEPHANT ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Mark C. Orton, Thomas Strong, Linda McKeown
+and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
+https://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Whooo-ish! went more water from Tum Tum's trunk on the
+blazing peanut wagon and straw. (Page 91) _Frontispiece_]
+
+
+
+
+             Kneetime Animal Stories
+
+           TUM TUM, THE JOLLY ELEPHANT
+
+               HIS MANY ADVENTURES
+
+
+                       BY
+
+                 RICHARD BARNUM
+
+Author of "Squinty, the Comical Pig," "Slicko, the
+   Jumping Squirrel," "Mappo, the Merry Monkey,"
+           "Don, a Runaway Dog," etc.
+
+
+                _ILLUSTRATED BY_
+
+               _HARRIET H. TOOKER_
+
+
+                    NEW YORK
+                BARSE & HOPKINS
+                   PUBLISHERS
+
+
+
+
+             KNEETIME ANIMAL STORIES
+
+                By Richard Barnum
+
+   _Large 12mo. Illustrated. Price per volume,_
+               _50 cents, postpaid_
+
+
+            SQUINTY, THE COMICAL PIG
+            SLICKO, THE JUMPING SQUIRREL
+            MAPPO, THE MERRY MONKEY
+            TUM TUM, THE JOLLY ELEPHANT
+            DON, A RUNAWAY DOG
+            DIDO, THE DANCING BEAR
+            BLACKIE, A LOST CAT
+            FLOP EAR, THE FUNNY RABBIT
+            TINKLE, THE TRICK PONY
+            LIGHTFOOT, THE LEAPING GOAT
+          (_Other volumes in preparation_)
+
+                  BARSE & HOPKINS
+          Publishers           New York
+
+
+                  Copyright, 1915
+                        by
+                  Barse & Hopkins
+
+
+            _Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant_
+
+
+                VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
+              BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK
+
+
+
+
+                     CONTENTS
+
+
+CHAPTER                             PAGE
+
+      I TUM TUM GOES SWIMMING          7
+
+     II TUM TUM IS CAUGHT             18
+
+    III TUM TUM AND MAPPO             31
+
+     IV TUM TUM IN THE CIRCUS         42
+
+      V TUM TUM AND DON               49
+
+     VI TUM TUM AND THE WAGON         60
+
+    VII TUM TUM LOOKS FOR MAPPO       69
+
+   VIII TUM TUM AND THE FIRE          77
+
+     IX TUM TUM AND THE BALLOONS      89
+
+      X TUM TUM AND THE LEMONADE      97
+
+     XI TUM TUM AND THE TIGER        110
+
+    XII TUM TUM'S BRAVE DEED         117
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+Whooo-ish! went more water from Tum Tum's trunk
+  on the blazing peanut wagon and straw.                  _Frontispiece_
+
+                                                                    PAGE
+
+Through the forest jungle rushed the elephants, trampling
+  down the trees and bushes                                           24
+
+He fell down on his knees, while Mappo sailed through
+  the air                                                             41
+
+All this while Tum Tum was holding Don high in the
+  air in his trunk                                                    60
+
+The big hippopotamus wagon rolled out of the mud, and
+  on to the firm, hard road                                           84
+
+Right out of the ground the big elephant pulled the tree              98
+
+He stayed under the tree where the tiger was, for he
+  knew that soon the circus men would come to hunt for
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+
+
+
+
+TUM TUM, THE JOLLY ELEPHANT
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+TUM TUM GOES SWIMMING
+
+
+Tum Tum was a jolly elephant. I shall tell you that much at the start of
+this story, so you will not have to be guessing as to who Tum Tum was.
+Tum Tum was the jolliest elephant in the circus, but before that he was
+the jolliest elephant in the woods or jungle.
+
+In fact, Tum Tum was nearly always happy and jolly, and, though he had
+many troubles, in all the adventures that happened to him, still, he
+always tried to be good-natured over them.
+
+So I am going to tell you all about Tum Tum, and the wonderful things
+that happened to him.
+
+Once upon a time Tum Tum was a baby elephant, and lived away off in a
+far country called India, with many other elephants, little and big, in
+the jungle.
+
+The jungle is just another name for woods, or forest, only the jungle is
+a very thick woods. The trees grow big and strong, and between them grow
+strong vines so that it is hard for any living creature except an
+elephant, or maybe a snake to push his way along. A snake can crawl on
+the ground under the vines, you know.
+
+Well, Tum Tum lived in this jungle, and with him lived his father and
+mother. His father was a great big elephant, named Tusky, and he was
+called this because he had two big, long, white teeth, called tusks,
+sticking out on either side of his long trunk, which was like a fat
+rubber hose.
+
+Tum Tum's mother was named Mrs. Tusky, but she did not have any long
+teeth like her husband. Perhaps she had had some once, and had lost
+them, breaking down a big tree, or something like that.
+
+Tum Tum had no brothers or sisters, but there were other little boy and
+girl elephants in the herd, or family of elephants, where he lived, and,
+altogether, he had a good time in the jungle, Tum Tum did.
+
+One day Tum Tum, who had been eating his dinner of leaves, with his
+father and mother, heard a loud trumpeting in the woods back of where he
+was standing. Trumpeting is the noise an elephant makes when he blows
+through his long trunk, or nose. It is his way of speaking to another
+elephant.
+
+"Who's that calling?" asked Mrs. Tusky, of her husband.
+
+"Oh, it sounds like some of the little boy elephants," said the old papa
+elephant, as he pulled up a tree by the roots, so he could the more
+easily take a bite from the tender top leaves.
+
+"I hope it doesn't mean any danger for us," said Mrs. Tusky, looking at
+Tum Tum, who was busy finishing his dinner.
+
+Elephants, you know, no matter if they are big, are just as much afraid
+of danger as are other wild animals. Of course they are not so much
+afraid of the other beasts in the jungles, for the elephant can fight
+almost anything, even a lion or a tiger.
+
+But an elephant is afraid of the black men, or natives, who live in the
+jungle, and an elephant is also afraid of the white hunters, who come
+into the big forest from time to time.
+
+"I hope no hunters are about, to make one of our elephant friends
+trumpet that way," said Mrs. Tusky, speaking in a way elephants have.
+
+"Oh, no, don't be afraid," said her husband, eating away at his tree
+leaves. "There is no danger." But, as he said this, he put up his long
+trunk-nose, and carefully sniffed the air. That is the way animals have
+of telling if danger is near. They do it by smelling as well as by
+listening and seeing. Only one cannot see very far in the jungle, as the
+trees are so thick.
+
+Mr. Tusky also lifted up his big ears, about as large as ten palm-leaf
+fans, and listened for any sounds of danger. All he heard was the
+crashing of tree branches and bushes, as some of the other elephants,
+farther off in the jungle, pushed their way about eating their dinners.
+
+Then, suddenly, some elephant called, trumpeting through his trunk:
+
+"Tum Tum! Hello, Tum Tum! Can't you come out and play?"
+
+"Oh, it's some of your little elephant friends," said Mr. Tum Tum, to
+the little boy elephant. I say "little," though Tum Tum was really a
+pretty good size. He was much larger than a horse.
+
+"Oh, may I go and play with them?" asked Tum Tum, just as any of you
+might have done.
+
+Of course Tum Tum did not speak in words, as you or I would have done.
+Instead he spoke in elephant language, though he could also speak and
+understand other animal talk. And he could also understand man-talk,
+just as, in my other books, I have told you how dogs, cats, pigs and
+monkeys can understand what we say to them, though they cannot talk to
+us.
+
+"May I go out and play?" asked Tum Tum.
+
+"Oh, I guess so," answered his father. "But do not go too far away. And
+you must listen for the sound of the danger trumpet from Mr. Boom. When
+he signals that there is danger, you must run back, for that will mean
+we shall have to go off farther in the jungle, and hide."
+
+"I'll be careful," promised Tum Tum.
+
+Elephants in the jungle live in big families, or herds. At the head is
+the largest elephant of them all, the leader. He is always on the
+lookout for danger, and when he sees, hears or smells any, he gives a
+signal, or trumpet, through his trunk, and then all the elephants run
+away and hide.
+
+Tum Tum, the jolly elephant, stopped eating his dinner, for he had had
+enough, anyhow, and off through the jungle he crashed. He did not wait
+to go by the path, for he was so big and strong. Even though he was a
+little chap, as yet, he could crash through big thick bushes, and even
+knock over pretty large trees, if they were in his way.
+
+"I'm coming!" called Tum Tum to his play-fellows, the other elephants.
+"I'm coming!"
+
+Tum Tum came to a tree that stood in his way. He could just as well have
+gone around it, but that was not what he was used to. He lowered his
+head, and banged into it.
+
+"Crash!" over went the tree, broken off short.
+
+"I'll soon be with you!" Tum Tum called again, for he still could not
+see his little friends. "Who's there?" he asked.
+
+Back through the jungle came the answer:
+
+"We're all here--Whoo-ee, Gumble-umble, Thorny and Zunga!"
+
+These were the names of the elephants with whom Tum Tum played. Whoo-ee
+was a boy elephant, and he had that name, because he used to make a
+funny sound, almost like his name, when he whistled through his trunk.
+Gumble-umble was another boy elephant, and he was called that because he
+grumbled, or found fault, so often.
+
+Thorny was a girl elephant, and she got her name, because she was so
+fond of eating the tender, juicy leaves from the thorn tree. Zunga was
+another girl elephant, and she was just called that name because her
+mother thought it sounded nice--just as Tum Tum's mamma thought his name
+was the nicest one in the jungle.
+
+"I'm coming!" trumpeted Tum Tum, and then he came to another tree that
+stood in his path.
+
+"I guess I'll have to knock this out of the way," he thought to himself,
+and he lowered his strong head and started toward it.
+
+"Crack!" went his head against the tree, but the tree did not break. It
+was very strong.
+
+"Humph!" thought Tum Tum. "I guess I'll have to pull you up by the roots
+if I can't break you off."
+
+So he wound his trunk around the tree. Then he pulled and he pulled and
+he pulled some more until, all of a sudden, the tree came up by the
+roots.
+
+It came up so quickly that Tum Tum tumbled over backwards, head over
+heels.
+
+"Smash!" down in the bushes went Tum Tum, holding up the tree in his
+trunk.
+
+"Ha! Ha!" came an elephant laugh from the jungle in front of Tum Tum.
+
+"Oh, just look at him!" a voice called.
+
+"What happened, Tum Tum?" asked a third elephant.
+
+"Are you playing one of your tricks?" some one else wanted to know.
+
+Tum Tum looked up from where he lay on his back in the bushes. He saw
+Whoo-ee, Gumble-umble, Thorny and Zunga looking at him, their mouths
+wide open, laughing.
+
+And then, instead of getting angry, and being cross, Tum Tum just
+laughed himself, such a jolly laugh!
+
+"Ha! Ha!" he giggled. "I--I fell over backward pulling up this tree. Did
+you see me?"
+
+"Did we see you? Well, I guess we did!" cried Whoo-ee.
+
+"Well, maybe you did, but I didn't," complained Gumble-umble. "Zunga got
+right in my way, when I wanted to look."
+
+"Oh, I'm sorry," said Zunga. "I didn't mean to."
+
+"Oh, don't mind Gumble-umble," said Tum Tum, with another jolly laugh.
+"He's always finding fault. I'll pull up another tree, and fall again,
+Gumble-umble, so you can see me do it, if you like."
+
+"No, don't. You might hurt yourself," said Thorny, the other girl
+elephant.
+
+"Pooh!" cried Tum Tum. "I'm not afraid!"
+
+"Well, never mind about pulling up more trees now," said Whoo-ee. "We
+called you to come out, and have some fun with us. We are going
+swimming."
+
+"Where?" asked Tum Tum, as he got up off his back, and blew some dust
+over himself to keep away the flies.
+
+"Oh, we're going down in the river," said Zunga. "It's so hot to-day,
+that a nice bath will cool us off. Come on."
+
+"I'd better ask my mother," said Tum Tum. "I didn't know you were going
+swimming, when you called for me to come and play with you. I'll go ask
+her."
+
+"All right, we'll wait for you. Only don't be all day," said
+Gumble-umble. "We want to go in the water before night."
+
+"Oh, you mustn't mind him," laughed Whoo-ee. "I don't know what's the
+matter with him to-day; he's always finding fault. Did you get a thorn
+in your foot, Gumble, that makes you so cross?"
+
+"No, I didn't," answered the other boy elephant. "But I don't want to
+stand here all the afternoon in a hot jungle, waiting for Tum Tum."
+
+"I won't be long," promised the jolly elephant. He hurried back through
+the woods to where his father and mother were still eating.
+
+"Mother, may I go in swimming?" he asked, as he came to where Mrs. Tusky
+stood.
+
+"Yes, but don't go so far, that you can't hear any calls that may come
+from Mr. Boom. There's no telling when the hunters may find us."
+
+"I'll listen, and be careful," said Tum Tum.
+
+Back he crashed through the jungle, and soon he and his elephant friends
+were on their way to the river, that was not far from where the herd of
+elephants was feeding.
+
+"There's the river!" suddenly called Whoo-ee, as he caught sight of the
+sparkling water through the trees.
+
+"Let's see who'll be the first one in!" called Whoo-ee, as he began to
+run.
+
+"Oh, don't leave us behind," begged Thorny and Zunga.
+
+"Oh, that's the way with girls--always making a fuss!" complained
+Gumble-umble. "Why can't you run like we boys do?"
+
+"Because you're bigger and stronger than we are," said Zunga.
+
+"Well, we're not going to wait for you," said Gumble-umble.
+
+"Never mind, I don't care whether I'm first in the water or not," said
+Tum Tum. "I'll stay with you, Thorny, and Zunga."
+
+"Isn't Tum Tum nice?" whispered Zunga to Thorny, as they went along
+through the jungle.
+
+"Yes," said Thorny.
+
+Whoo-ee and Gumble-umble hurried on through the woods, and Whoo-ee was
+the first to splash into the water.
+
+"I beat!" he cried.
+
+"Well, I'd have been first only I stumbled over a tree root," said
+Gumble-umble.
+
+He was always finding fault, it seemed.
+
+Into the water splashed the five elephant children. They went out where
+it was about deep enough to come up to their ears, and then they sucked
+water up in their trunks and sprayed it over their backs, to drive away
+the flies and gnats that bit them. Then they swam out into deep water,
+and rolled and tumbled about, having great fun. They splashed each
+other, squirted water all over, and soon were as cool as cucumbers on
+ice.
+
+All at once, through the jungle, there sounded a loud trumpeting.
+
+"Hark!" cried Whoo-ee, as he stopped squirting water on Thorny. "What's
+that?"
+
+"It's Mr. Boom signaling that there's danger!" cried Tum Tum.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+TUM TUM IS CAUGHT
+
+
+Tum Tum, and the other elephants who were in swimming, made no more
+noise than a fly walking up the window. They all kept quiet and
+listened.
+
+Through the jungle again sounded the trumpet call:
+
+"Umph! Umph! Boom! Boom! Toom!"
+
+"That sure means danger!" cried Tum Tum. "Come on! We had better go back
+to where our fathers and mothers are."
+
+"Indeed we had!" said Thorny, as she and Zunga waded to the shore, water
+dripping from them.
+
+"That's always the way!" complained Gumble-umble. "Just as we are having
+fun, something has to happen."
+
+"Look here!" exclaimed Whoo-ee, "you don't want to be caught in a trap,
+do you?"
+
+"Of course not," said Gumble-umble.
+
+"And you don't want a hunter to shoot you, or to carry you away far off
+somewhere, do you?"
+
+"You know I don't," and Gumble-umble did not speak quite so crossly this
+time.
+
+"Well, then," said Whoo-ee, "let's do as Tum Tum is doing, and start for
+home. There must be some danger, or Mr. Boom wouldn't have called to us
+that way."
+
+"Indeed he wouldn't," said Tum Tum, and he did not laugh in his jolly
+way now. "My mother told me to be sure and listen for a call from Mr.
+Boom. She said he would be looking for danger, and when he called, I was
+to hurry home."
+
+Tum Tum was out on the bank of the river now. Gumble-umble was the last
+one of the elephants to come from the swimming pool.
+
+"Let's hurry," said Tum Tum.
+
+"That's what I say!" cried Thorny. "I don't want to be caught by some
+hunter."
+
+The elephant children knew what hunters were, for their fathers and
+mothers had often told them about the natives who tried to catch
+elephants. Indeed, some of the older elephants had more than once been
+caught in traps, but they had gotten out.
+
+Without stopping to put on any clothes, for of course elephants do not
+wear any, Tum Tum and the others hurried off through the jungle toward
+where the rest of the herd was feeding. Several times as they hastened
+along, they could hear Mr. Boom trumpeting, and it sounded as though he
+said:
+
+"Hurry along! Hurry along! There's danger! Danger!"
+
+And Tum Tum and the others did hurry, you may be sure of that.
+
+Before the elephant children reached the place where they had left the
+herd feeding, Tum Tum saw something pushing through the jungle toward
+them.
+
+"Look out!" he warned his playmates. "Something is coming!"
+
+The five elephants stopped short, and were beginning to get afraid when,
+all at once, Tum Tum's mother burst through the bushes and came up to
+him.
+
+"Oh, I was so frightened!" she said, speaking through her trunk. "I
+thought you were never coming!"
+
+"Oh, we heard Mr. Boom," said Tum Tum, "and we came on as soon as we
+could. But what's the matter, mamma?"
+
+"Plenty is the matter, or, rather, is going to be, unless we can get
+away," said the mamma elephant. "A big band of hunters is in the jungle,
+and they are coming this way."
+
+"Did you see them?" asked Whoo-ee.
+
+"No, indeed! If we waited until they were close enough for us elephants
+to see them, they would be so close, that we could not get away. Some
+monkeys brought word that the hunters were on the march. So we are going
+to start at once and go afar off, into a deep, dark part of the jungle,
+where they cannot find us."
+
+"Well, we had a swim, anyhow," said Tum Tum. "I'm hungry, mamma. Have we
+time to eat?"
+
+"No, indeed," said the lady elephant. "We'll just have to eat as we go
+along. You children had better go to your fathers and mothers," she said
+to Whoo-ee, Gumble-umble, Thorny and Zunga. "They are, very likely,
+looking for you."
+
+So the four friends of Tum Tum started off, and soon the whole herd of
+elephants was moving off through the jungle, led by Mr. Boom, who had
+heard of the danger from a monkey friend.
+
+All that day the herd of elephants kept on, crashing their way through
+the jungle. They did not follow any path, but made one for themselves.
+Through the thick, strong vines they pushed their way, breaking down
+trees, or pulling them up by their roots. Nothing could stop the
+elephants when they were running away from danger.
+
+"Oh, dear! This is no fun! I'm tired! I'm not going to run any more!"
+complained Gumble-umble. "I don't believe there is any danger, anyhow."
+
+"Oh, but there must be," said Tum Tum, who, with Whoo-ee, was hurrying
+along beside his play-fellow. "Otherwise they wouldn't make us go so
+fast," and he pointed with his trunk to Mr. Boom, and some of the older
+men elephants, who were leading the herd.
+
+"Well, I'm not going to go so fast," said Gumble-umble. "I'm going to
+stop and have a rest."
+
+"No, you're not!" exclaimed his father, who came up behind Gumble-umble,
+just then. "I'm sorry," the papa elephant said, "but you must keep on.
+It would never do to stop now, or the hunters would get us. Here, I'll
+push you along," and with his strong head, Gumble-umble's father shoved
+his son along, whether Gumble-umble wanted to go or not.
+
+Tum Tum needed no pushing. He was glad enough to hurry along as fast as
+he could. So were the other small elephants, for they did not want to be
+caught.
+
+Then, after a while, Mr. Boom signaled that they were far enough off
+now, and need not hurry any more. They were safe, at least for a time.
+
+"And I'm glad of it!" exclaimed Gumble-umble. "I can't walk another
+step," and he lay down to rest. All the elephants were tired, and
+hungry. But they had come to a place where there was plenty of food and
+water.
+
+Soon they were eating, drinking and getting ready to spend the night in
+the jungle, for it was now almost dark. Tum Tum found a nice cozy place
+between his mother and father, and soon he was sound asleep.
+
+For some time after this, the herd of elephants was kept on the move by
+the hunters. Then, finally, the men with guns were left so far behind
+that there was no more danger for them. Then all the elephants were
+glad. They did not have to run through the jungle any more, and they had
+time to eat and drink.
+
+Tum Tum and his friends went in swimming many times, and Tum Tum grew so
+fat and large and strong, that he was soon the largest of all the
+children elephants in the herd. In fact, he was almost as large as his
+father and mother, and of all the elephants he was the strongest, except
+only Mr. Boom. No elephant was stronger or braver than Mr. Boom. That
+was what made him the leader.
+
+One day, when Tum Tum had grown to be a big, fine strong elephant,
+though as jolly as ever, something happened to him. I shall tell you all
+about it now.
+
+The herd of elephants was in the forest as before. They were eating
+away, when, all of a sudden, Mr. Boom gave the signal with his trunk.
+
+"Danger! Danger!" he cried, in his deep, booming voice, that was like
+distant thunder.
+
+"Oh, we've got to run again!" cried Mr. Tusky, who was the father of Tum
+Tum.
+
+It is a good thing elephants do not live in houses, and also good that
+they have nothing to move with them, when they go from place to place,
+or they would have trouble, because they have to run away from danger so
+often.
+
+Once again they were on the march, with Mr. Boom in the lead. Now Tum
+Tum was so big and strong, that he was allowed to march at the head of
+the herd with Mr. Boom.
+
+"Oh, but I am afraid to have him there," said Mrs. Tusky to her husband.
+
+"Nonsense!" exclaimed the papa elephant. "He must learn to take his
+place. Some day he will be the leader of the herd, and will warn the
+others of danger."
+
+Through the forest jungle rushed the elephants, trampling down the trees
+and bushes. Behind them could be heard the shouts of the hunters, and
+the firing of guns. There was also the noise of big wooden and tin drums
+being beaten, and horns being blown. There was also the trumpeting of
+other elephants--tame elephants. For hunters use tame elephants to help
+them catch the wild ones.
+
+[Illustration: Through the forest jungle rushed the elephants, trampling
+down the trees and bushes. Page 24]
+
+"Wait! don't run away! You will not be hurt!" called the tame elephants
+to Tum Tum, and the other wild ones.
+
+But the wild elephants did not want to be caught. They did not know they
+would be kindly treated by their masters. All the wild elephants wanted
+to do was to get away. So with Tum Tum and Mr. Boom at their head, away
+they rushed through the jungle.
+
+All at once the rushing herd of wild elephants came to a fence in the
+jungle. It was a strong fence, made of big bamboo trees stuck in the
+ground. It was such a strong fence that even Mr. Boom, try as he did,
+could not break it down. When he found that after one or two blows from
+his head would not break the fence, he called out to the other
+elephants:
+
+"Never mind the fence! We can't break through it, so we'll run along
+beside it. Maybe there'll be a hole in it somewhere."
+
+So the elephants rushed through the jungle, alongside of the fence, just
+as you might do, until you came to a gate, or hole. That was what Mr.
+Boom was looking for--a hole in the fence.
+
+But he did not see any. In fact, this fence was a trap, and soon Mr.
+Boom and the other elephants knew this.
+
+"Run away from the fence! Run over this way!" called Mr. Boom.
+
+The elephants ran, but soon they saw another fence in front of them--a
+fence as strong as the first one. Mr. Boom and some of the strong
+elephants, including Tum Tum, tried to break it down, but they could
+not. If they had all gotten together, and pushed at one spot, they might
+have broken it, but they pushed in different places, and the fence held
+them back.
+
+"Never mind!" called Mr. Boom. "Maybe this fence has a hole in it. We'll
+run along it and find out."
+
+"Why can't we turn around and go back?" asked Gumble-umble of Tum Tum,
+behind whom he was now running.
+
+"Because the hunters are behind us," said Tum Tum. "If we turned back,
+they would surely catch us. The only thing to do is to run on."
+
+Tum Tum was beginning to be a smart elephant, you see. He knew many
+things about danger. But, had he only known it, there was something he
+did not know--and this was that he and the others were, even then,
+running right into a trap.
+
+On and on rushed the elephants. The two lines of fences that had been
+far apart, were now so close together that they could both easily be
+seen at once. It was like going down a long lane, in the cow pasture,
+with a fence on either side.
+
+Then Mr. Boom saw the danger.
+
+"Go back! Go back!" called the big leader elephant. "Go back!"
+
+But it was too late. Right in front of the elephants was a big round
+place, like a baseball park, with a high fence all around it--a very
+strong fence. There was a gate by which the elephants could be driven
+into this park, only it was a trap, and not a park. And there was no way
+out of it. The fence ran all about it, except this one hole. And through
+that hole the elephants were being driven.
+
+"Go back! Go back!" cried Tum Tum, waving his trunk at the other
+elephants as Mr. Boom was doing.
+
+But the elephants were afraid to go back because the hunters were
+rushing up behind them. The hunters had driven the elephants into the
+trap, and were going to keep them there.
+
+Up rode the hunters on tame elephants. Into the trap they drove the wild
+ones, Tum Tum and all the others.
+
+"Alas! We are caught!" cried Mr. Boom. "Come, let us see if we cannot
+break through this fence!"
+
+He rushed at it with his big head, but the fence was too strong for him.
+
+Into the midst of the wild elephants came the tame ones, with the
+hunter-men on their backs. The tame elephants talked to the wild ones.
+
+"Be quiet!" said the tame elephants. "You will not be hurt! See us! We
+were once like you, but we were caught and we like it. Be quiet!"
+
+Some of the elephants quieted down, but others rushed about, trying to
+break through the fence. Tum Tum was one of these. Then, all at once two
+tame elephants, with men on their backs, rushed at Tum Tum. Chains and
+ropes were thrown over his back, and around his legs. The chains and
+ropes were pulled tight.
+
+Tum Tum was caught in the trap.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+TUM TUM AND MAPPO
+
+
+Tum Tum was not now such a jolly elephant as he had been the day he went
+in swimming, or as happy as when he pulled up the tree, fell over
+backward, and laughed at his own joke. No, indeed! Tum Tum was feeling
+very unhappy now.
+
+"Oh, mamma!" Tum Tum cried. "Oh, papa! What has happened?"
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Tusky were not able to answer Tum Tum. They, too, as well
+as nearly all the other elephants, had been caught in the trap. Some of
+them, like Tum Tum, were held fast with chains and ropes, and others
+were trying to batter down the fence of the trap with their heads. But
+they felt that they could not do it, as the fence was too strong.
+
+"Let me go! Let me loose!" cried Tum Tum in his elephant language.
+
+Of course the hunter men, who had taken Tum Tum and the others
+prisoners, did not understand this talk, but they could see that Tum
+Tum was very strong, and might break loose.
+
+"Better put a couple more chains on that fellow," said one of the
+hunters to another.
+
+"I guess so," agreed the second hunter. "That is the finest and biggest
+elephant we have caught in this herd."
+
+At first Tum Tum thought they must be speaking of Mr. Boom, who surely
+was the largest and strongest elephant in the jungle. But, when Tum Tum
+looked around, Mr. Boom was not to be seen. He had gotten away. He had
+turned, and run out of the trap, and he was so big and strong that even
+the tame elephants, with the hunters on their backs, could not stop him.
+Away he rushed into the jungle. But he was very sad, for he alone, of
+all the herd, had escaped.
+
+"I wonder of whom they can be speaking, so big and strong," thought Tum
+Tum. He saw two tame elephants, with hunters on their backs, and
+carrying chains, coming toward him.
+
+"Why--why, they must mean me!" said Tum Tum to himself. He stopped
+trying to break down the fence, which the hunters had built as a trap,
+and waited.
+
+"Look out for him," said one of the men. "He looks dangerous. He looks
+like a bad elephant."
+
+Tum Tum was not a bad elephant. He was very strong, but he was not bad.
+
+"Oh, mamma, what shall I do?" cried Tum Tum, as he saw the tame
+elephants, with chains, coming closer to him.
+
+For all his great strength, Tum Tum was yet only a boy elephant. He was
+not very wise. He did not know what to do.
+
+"Listen," said Tum Tum's father. "You are now the leader of the herd,
+Tum Tum. Mr. Boom is gone, and I am too old to be the leader. So you
+must be. We elephants will do as you do. If you can break down the
+fence, and get away from the hunters, we will follow you."
+
+"I will try, once more, to break down the fence," said Tum Tum. "Let
+some of the strong, young elephants come to help me. Come,
+Whoo-ee--come, Gumble-umble! We will smash down the fence!"
+
+But one of the tame elephants, who heard what Tum Tum said, called to
+him, and spoke:
+
+"Oh, brother. Do not break down the fence."
+
+"Why not?" asked Tum Tum, who could easily understand the language of
+the tame elephant. "Why should I not break the fence, and let my
+friends, and my father and mother, out of this trap. Why not?"
+
+"Because," answered the tame elephant, with the chains, "you cannot do
+it. Already you are held with ropes, and soon we will put more chains on
+you, so that you cannot move."
+
+"And why would you--you who are elephants like ourselves--why would you
+do this to us, who never harmed you?" asked Tum Tum.
+
+"Because it is for your good," said the tame elephant. "The white
+hunters are very strong. You may get away from them now, but they will
+come after you again. It is better to give in now. If you are good, and
+do not try to break down the fence, you will wear no chains."
+
+"But what will happen to us--to me and my father and mother?" asked Tum
+Tum.
+
+"You will be put to work, piling teak logs in the woods," said the tame
+elephant. "You will have enough to eat, you will have shelter from the
+rain and the flies. You will have water to drink and to wash in. It is a
+good life. I like it."
+
+"Is that all that will happen to me?" asked Tum Tum.
+
+"Perhaps not," answered the tame elephant. "You may be sent far across
+the big water, in a house that floats, and go, as other elephants have
+gone, to a circus, or menagerie, for the boys and girls to look at, and
+feed peanuts to."
+
+"What are peanuts?" asked Tum Tum, who was hungry.
+
+"I do not know, never having eaten any," said the tame elephant. "But
+one of my brothers, who was in a circus in a far off land, and who came
+back here, said they were very good. Now shall we put the chains on
+you--I and my tame brothers--or will you be quiet--you and the others?"
+
+Tum Tum thought for a minute. After all he was caught, and it would be
+hard to get away, even if he were the strongest elephant in the herd,
+now that Mr. Boom was gone. Then, too, it might be nice in a circus, and
+Tum Tum certainly wanted to see what peanuts were like.
+
+"I--I will be good, tame brother," he said. "You need not put the chains
+and ropes on me."
+
+"You are wise, Tum Tum," said the tame elephant. "We will put no chains
+on you. And about the others?" he asked.
+
+"The others will do as I do," said Tum Tum. "I am the leader now."
+
+"Good!" trumpeted the tame elephant, whose name was Dunda. "My brother
+from the jungle is wise."
+
+So Tum Tum had no more chains put on his legs or back, and those that
+were on him, with the ropes, were taken off.
+
+"So we are not to try to break from the trap?" asked Whoo-ee.
+
+"No, for we will be well treated here," said Tum Tum, "and some of us
+may go to a circus."
+
+"What is a circus?" asked Zunga.
+
+"It is a place where boys and girls look at us, and feed us peanuts,"
+answered Tum Tum.
+
+"I will not go to any circus!" cried Gumble-umble. "I am going to break
+out of this trap!"
+
+"You must not!" cried Tum Tum. "I have said that we would all be good,
+and I am the leader."
+
+"You cannot lead me!" trumpeted Gumble-umble, and he rushed at the fence
+of the stockade, or trap. But before he could reach it, two tame
+elephants rushed at him, and Gumble-umble was soon bound with strong
+chains and ropes, so that he could hardly move.
+
+"It is all your fault!" he cried to Tum Tum.
+
+"No, it is your own," said Gumble-umble's papa. "Now you must quiet down
+and be a good elephant. We are caught, we can go no more to the jungle,
+but perhaps it is best for us."
+
+So Tum Tum and the wild elephants were thus caught.
+
+For a time the herd of wild elephants was kept inside the fence. They
+were given good things to eat, and plenty of water to drink, and to
+blow over themselves with their trunks, to cool off. They did not try to
+get away, though once, in the night, Mr. Boom came as close to the
+outside of the trap, or stockade, as he dared, and trumpeted, trying to
+call his herd back to him. But they would not go. They were beginning to
+like it, with the tame elephants.
+
+In a little while all the wild elephants, Tum Tum included, were quite
+tame. Then they were taken out, a few at a time, out to the forest, and
+shown how to pile up the heavy logs of teakwood, which is used for
+building ships, and sometimes for making tables and chairs.
+
+The tame elephants showed the wild ones how to carry the logs on their
+tusks, or in their trunks, and how to pile them up as neatly as you can
+pile up your building blocks.
+
+Tum Tum learned to do this, and also how to push heavy wagons about with
+his head. He also learned much of the man-talk, so that his driver, or
+_mahoot_, as he is called, could, by a few words, make Tum Tum
+understand just what was wanted.
+
+One day Tum Tum was taken away from the rest of the herd, and he did not
+even have a chance to say good-by. He was led up what seemed to be a
+little bridge, and Tum Tum was afraid it would fall with him. But it did
+not.
+
+Next he walked down into a dark place, and he found other elephants
+there. Some of them he knew.
+
+"Where are we, and where are we going?" he asked.
+
+"We are in a ship, and we are being taken across the ocean to a circus,"
+answered Whoo-ee, who was one of the elephants in the dark place, which
+was the inside of a steamship.
+
+"A circus! Good!" cried Tum Tum. "Now I shall know how a peanut tastes."
+
+The ship began to move and rock. It rocked and swayed for many days, for
+it was on the ocean. And then, one day, a sailor came down to see the
+elephants. He brought with him a queer little animal, with thick, brown
+hair. And this animal chattered in jungle talk.
+
+"Ha! I seem to know who that is!" thought Tum Tum.
+
+"Chatter! Chatter! Chat! Chur-r-r-r-r-r!" went the little brown-haired
+animal, as he sprang from the arms of the sailor.
+
+"Umph! Umph!" trumpeted Tum Tum.
+
+Then the little brown monkey, for such it was, gave a jump from the arms
+of the sailor, and landed up on the back of the elephant.
+
+"Hello, Tum Tum!" cried the monkey.
+
+"Why, it's Mappo!" exclaimed Tum Tum. "How did you get here?"
+
+"I was caught in a net, when I was eating some cocoanut," the monkey
+said. I have told you how that happened in a book called, "Mappo, the
+Merry Monkey."
+
+[Illustration: He fell down on his knees, while Mappo sailed through the
+air. Page 41]
+
+"Caught in a net, eh?" said Tum Tum. "That is too bad. I was caught
+myself. But where are you going?"
+
+"To a circus," answered Mappo.
+
+"So am I!" cried Tum Tum. "This is fine! We'll be in the circus
+together!"
+
+The monkey and the elephant were good friends, for they had known each
+other in the jungle, Tum Tum often having passed under the tree where
+Mappo's home was.
+
+The sailor who had brought Mappo down to see the elephants, smiled as he
+saw Tum Tum making friends with him.
+
+"I guess I'll leave them together," said the sailor.
+
+So Mappo went to sleep on Tum Tum's big back.
+
+The monkey had not slept very long, before he was suddenly awakened, by
+finding himself almost sliding off.
+
+"What is the matter, Tum Tum?" asked Mappo.
+
+"The ship is trying to stand on its head, I think," said the elephant.
+"Oh, here I go!" and he fell down on his knees, while Mappo sailed
+through the air and fell on a pile of hay.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+TUM TUM IN THE CIRCUS
+
+
+With Mappo chattering in his monkey language, and the elephants in the
+lower part of the ship trumpeting through their trunks, there was so
+much noise, that it is no wonder many of the animals were frightened.
+
+"Oh, what is it? What is it?" Mappo chattered.
+
+"I don't know," answered Tum Tum, "unless the hunters are coming after
+us again," and, raising his trunk, he gave the call of danger, as he had
+heard Mr. Boom, the big leader elephant, give it in the jungle.
+
+"Hush! Be quiet!" called an old elephant near Tum Tum. "Why do you call
+that way, brother?" he asked in elephant language.
+
+"There is danger," replied Tum Tum. "I must tell the others to get out
+of here."
+
+"That cannot be done," said the old elephant. "We are in a ship, on the
+big water, and if we got out now, in the ocean, we would surely drown.
+Be quiet!"
+
+"But why am I tossed about so?" asked Tum Tum. "Why can I not stand up
+straight?"
+
+"Because the ship is in a storm," answered the old elephant. "I know,
+for I have been on a ship before. The wind is blowing and tossing the
+ship up and down.
+
+"But there is no danger. Only keep quiet, and, since you are the new
+leader of the elephants, tell them to be quiet, or some of them may be
+hurt. See, down come the sailors to see what is the trouble."
+
+Surely enough, down came a whole lot of sailors, in white suits, to see
+why all the elephants had trumpeted so loudly, and why Mappo, the merry
+monkey, had squealed.
+
+"Hush! Be quiet!" called Tum Tum to the other elephants. "Be quiet or I
+shall beat you with my trunk, and make you."
+
+When Tum Tum spoke that way, all the other elephants heard him, and they
+grew quiet. Some, who had fallen on their knees, when the ship tossed
+from side to side, now got up. They placed their big legs far apart, so
+they could stand steadily.
+
+"We will be all right when the storm passes," said the old elephant who
+had spoken to Tum Tum.
+
+Mappo picked himself up off the pile of hay, and, just then, his friend
+the sailor came to get him.
+
+"I guess you have been here long enough, Mappo," said the sailor. "You
+might get hurt down here, with all these big elephants."
+
+Mappo was glad enough to go, not that he felt afraid of the elephants,
+but he knew that one of them might, by accident, fall on him, and an
+elephant is so large and heavy that, when he falls on a monkey, there is
+not much left of the little chap.
+
+"Good-by, Tum Tum!" called Mappo to his big friend. "I'll come and see
+you, when the storm is over."
+
+"All right," answered Tum Tum. "And I hope the storm will soon be over,
+for I do not like it."
+
+The ship was swinging to and fro, like a rocking chair on the front
+porch when the wind blows. But finally the elephants became used to it,
+and some of them could even go to sleep. But Tum Tum stayed awake.
+
+"There might be some danger," he thought to himself, "and if there was,
+I could warn the others. I am the leader, and must always be on the
+watch for danger, just as Mr. Boom would be, if he were here."
+
+But I am glad to say no more danger came to the ship. It rode safely
+through the storm, and in a few days, it was gliding swiftly over the
+blue sea.
+
+"What will happen to us, when the ship stops sailing?" asked Tum Tum of
+the old elephant, who seemed to know so much.
+
+"After it gets to the other side of the ocean," said the old elephant,
+"we shall be taken out--we and all the animals. Then we shall go to the
+circus."
+
+"Is the circus nice?" asked Tum Tum.
+
+"I have been in one or two, and I like them," said the old elephant,
+whose name was Hoy. "There is hard work, but there is also fun."
+
+"Tell me about the fun," said Tum Tum. "I do not like to hear about the
+hard work."
+
+"The work goes with the fun," said Hoy, "so I will tell you about both.
+The hard work comes in marching through the hard city streets, that hurt
+your feet. That is when we go in the parade. I know, for I have been in
+many parades. But it is fun, too, for we elephants have a little house
+on our backs, and men and women ride in it. Then the bands play, and the
+people laugh and shout to see us pass by. Yes, that is fun," and the old
+elephant, who had been sent to make the voyage in the ship, so that he
+might keep the new, wild elephants quiet, shut his eyes as he thought of
+the circus days.
+
+"Is there other hard work?" asked Tum Tum.
+
+"A great deal," said Hoy. "You will have to push heavy wagons about with
+your head, and lift heavy poles, as you did in the lumber yard when you
+came from the jungle. And then you will have to do tricks in the circus
+ring."
+
+"What are tricks?" asked Tum Tum.
+
+"Tricks are what I call hard work, but they make the people in the
+circus laugh," answered Hoy. "You will have to stand on your head, turn
+somersaults and do many things like that."
+
+"Now tell me about the fun," begged Tum Tum.
+
+"Yes, there is some fun," spoke Hoy, slowly. "You will get nice hay to
+eat, and water to drink, and the children in the circus will give you
+popcorn balls and peanuts to eat. Also, you will wear a fine blanket,
+all gold and spangles, when you march around the ring in the tent. But
+now I am tired, and I want to go to sleep."
+
+So the old elephant slept, and Tum Tum stood there, swaying backward and
+forward in the ship, wondering whether he would like a circus.
+
+It took several weeks for the ship to make the journey from jungle land
+to circus land, and, during that period, Mappo, the merry monkey, came
+down to see Tum Tum several times.
+
+"I am going to be in the circus, also," said Mappo, when one day Tum
+Tum spoke of the big show under the white tent.
+
+"Are you?" asked the jolly elephant. "That will be nice. We'll see each
+other."
+
+"And will you take care of me, so the tiger won't get me?" asked Mappo.
+
+"Indeed I shall!" cried Tum Tum through his big trunk.
+
+At last the day came when the ship reached her dock, and the animals
+were taken out. The chains were loosed from the legs of Tum Tum and the
+other elephants, and they were hoisted up from the lower part of the
+ship, and allowed to go ashore. Tum Tum was glad of it, for he was tired
+of the water. But his journey was not over, for, with the others, he was
+put in a railroad car, and hauled by an engine. At last, however, he
+reached a big wooden building, and the old elephant, Hoy, said:
+
+"This is where the circus stays in winter. Now you will begin to have
+hard work, and also fun."
+
+"Well," thought Tum Tum, as, with the other elephants, he marched toward
+the big barn-like building, "if there is enough fun, I shall not mind
+the hard work."
+
+Then, as he felt rather jolly, after getting out of the big freight car,
+Tum Tum picked up a piece of stick from the ground, and began tickling
+another elephant in the ribs with it.
+
+"Yoump! Umph! Woomph!" trumpeted this elephant. This was his way of
+saying:
+
+"Hi, there! What are you doing? Stop it!"
+
+"Oh, that's only in fun!" laughed Tum Tum.
+
+"Well, my ribs are too sore to want that kind of fun," the other
+elephant said. "Now you just quit!"
+
+But Tum Tum was so jolly that he wanted more fun, so he tickled another
+elephant. This elephant, instead of speaking to Tum Tum, just reached
+over with her long trunk, pulled one of Tum Tum's legs out from under
+him, and down he went in a heap.
+
+"Ha! Maybe you like that kind of fun!" cried the elephant who had made
+Tum Tum fall.
+
+"It didn't hurt me!" said Tum Tum, as he got up. But, after that, he was
+careful not to play any jokes on this elephant.
+
+It was very cold in this new land to which Tum Tum had come, for it was
+winter. It was not at all like his green, hot jungle, and he was glad
+when he was led, with the other elephants, into the big barn, where the
+circus stayed in winter.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+TUM TUM AND DON
+
+
+"Well, this is certainly a funny place," thought Tum Tum, the jolly
+elephant, as he looked about him. And well might he say so.
+
+He found himself inside a large barn, which was nice and warm, and for
+this Tum Tum was glad, for it felt more like the warmth of his jungle,
+and Tum Tum, who had been shivering in the cold, outer air, now felt
+much better.
+
+The earthen floor of the barn was covered with sawdust, and all around
+the sides of the barn were cages containing many animals. There were
+lions, tigers, wolves, leopards, monkeys, snakes, and many other strange
+beasts, some of which Tum Tum had seen in his jungle home, and some of
+which he had never before seen.
+
+"I suppose that is where Mappo will be put," thought Tum Tum, as he
+looked at the cages full of lively little monkey chaps.
+
+Then Tum Tum looked and saw a number of elephants, chained in a row on
+another side of the circus barn, and he knew that would be his place.
+Opening out of the big barn was a smaller one, and in that were many
+horses and ponies.
+
+There were many men in the circus barn, and they all seemed to be doing
+something. Some were carrying pails of water to the animals, others were
+feeding hay to the elephants, and meat to the lions, tigers and spotted
+leopards. Tum Tum did not care for meat, but he was very hungry for some
+of the juicy, green leaves that grew on trees in his jungle.
+
+As he could get none of those now, he had to eat dry hay, and very good
+that tasted, too. He had grown to like it on board the ship.
+
+"Bring the elephants over here!" called one circus man to another, and
+Tum Tum felt himself being led along by a man who had a stick with a
+hook in the end of it. But the man did not stick the hook in Tum Tum,
+because Tum Tum was good and gentle now.
+
+Tum Tum, though he had been a wild elephant in the jungle only a few
+weeks before, had learned many things, since he had been caught. He had
+learned that men were his friends, and would not hurt him, though they
+made him do as they wanted him to, and ordered him about as though he
+were a little dog instead of a big, strong elephant. The men did not
+seem to be afraid of Tum Tum, though he was a little afraid of them,
+especially when they carried sharp hooks, which hurt one's skin.
+
+"Come along!" cried the man who was leading Tum Tum and the others, and
+over to one side of the circus barn they went, to be chained by a leg to
+a very strong stake driven into the ground.
+
+"Feed them up well," said the first man, "and then we'll see about
+putting them through some tricks."
+
+"Ha!" thought Tum Tum. "So the tricks are to begin soon, are they? I
+wonder what kind I shall do, and whether I shall like them or not?"
+
+Tum Tum waited anxiously to see what would happen next. What did happen
+was that he got something to eat, and a little treat into the bargain.
+
+For with the big pile of hay that was given him, there were some long,
+pointed yellow things.
+
+"Ha! What are those?" asked Tum Tum of Hoy, the big, tame elephant who
+had been in a circus before.
+
+"They are carrots," said Hoy.
+
+"Are they good to eat?" asked Tum Tum.
+
+"Try and see," answered Hoy, with a twinkle in his little eyes. He was
+eating the yellow carrots as fast as he could.
+
+Tum Tum took one little bite, holding the carrot in his trunk. And, as
+soon as he chewed on it, he knew that he liked carrots very much.
+
+"Ha! That is certainly good!" he said to Hoy. "I wish I had carrots
+every day."
+
+"Oh, but you won't get them every day," said the old elephant. "They are
+just special, to get you to feeling jolly, so you will learn your tricks
+more easily."
+
+"Well, I feel pretty jolly anyhow," said Tum Tum. "I'll do any tricks I
+can."
+
+He did not know yet all that was to happen to him, before he learned to
+do his tricks.
+
+Tum Tum had been in the circus nearly a week before he was taught any
+tricks. In that week he had plenty to eat, and good water to drink, some
+of which he spurted over himself with his trunk. That was his way of
+taking a bath, you see.
+
+Then, one day, some circus men came to where Tum Tum was chained, and
+one of them said:
+
+"Now, we'll take out this big elephant, and teach him some tricks. Get
+Hoy, so he'll show Tum Tum what we want done."
+
+"Ha! So now the tricks begin!" cried Tum Tum to Hoy.
+
+"Yes, and you want to watch out, and do as you are told, or you may not
+like it," said Hoy.
+
+Tum Tum and the older elephant were led to the middle of the circus
+ring. The chains were taken off Tum Tum's legs, but a rope was put
+around his front ones, and he wondered what that was for. Then Tum Tum
+and Hoy were stood in a line with some other big elephants.
+
+"All ready now!" cried a circus man, snapping his long whip. "Stand up!"
+
+Hoy raised himself up on his hind legs, lifting his trunk high in the
+air.
+
+"Do as I do! Do as I do!" called Hoy to Tum Tum. "Stand up on your hind
+legs."
+
+"I--I can't!" answered Tum Tum, who tried. But he found he could not.
+
+Then a funny thing happened. All of a sudden Tum Tum found his front
+legs and head being pulled up in the air by the rope, and, before he
+knew it, he was standing on his hind legs whether he wanted to or not.
+
+The circus men had pulled on the end of the rope, which ran through a
+pulley, hoisting Tum Tum in the air. That was the way they had of
+teaching him to stand up. Several times Tum Tum was let down to the
+ground, and hauled up again, and each time he was pulled up, the circus
+man would call out:
+
+"Stand up on your hind legs! Stand up on your hind legs!"
+
+"Is this a trick?" asked Tum Tum of Hoy, who did not have to have a rope
+around him to pull him up.
+
+"Yes, it is one trick," answered the old elephant. "There are many more,
+though, to learn."
+
+Tum Tum was beginning to be tired of being hauled up this way. So were
+some of the other elephants, and one of them tried to break loose. But
+he was hit with a rope, and squealed so that none of the others tried to
+get away.
+
+"Now then, take off the ropes, and we'll see how many have learned their
+lesson," said the head circus man.
+
+"Now's your chance to show how smart you are," whispered Hoy to Tum Tum.
+"When he tells you to stand up next time, do it all by yourself. Then
+you'll have learned this one trick."
+
+"I'll try," promised Tum Tum.
+
+The elephants stood in a row. The head circus man cracked his whip, and
+called:
+
+"Up on your hind legs!"
+
+Tum Tum gave a little spring, and raised his front legs from the ground.
+He settled back on his strong hind legs, and there he was, doing just as
+Hoy was doing! Tum Tum had learned his first lesson, just as he had
+learned to pile teakwood logs in straight piles.
+
+"Ha! We have one smart fellow in the bunch, anyhow!" cried the circus
+man.
+
+Tum Tum was glad when he heard this, just as you would be, if you had
+learned your lesson in school. For it is a good thing to learn to do
+things, even for an elephant.
+
+But if Tum Tum thought he would get a rest after he had shown that he
+could do the trick without being hauled up by a rope, he was sadly
+mistaken. Over and over he had to do the trick, until he felt tired,
+large and strong as he was.
+
+Some of the elephants could stand up on their hind legs for a second or
+so, and then they fell down again. They were made to practice again with
+ropes, but no ropes were needed for Tum Tum.
+
+"Well, that's enough for one day," said the head circus man finally.
+"Give them all some carrots with their hay. To-morrow we shall try
+having them stand on their front legs."
+
+"Will that be harder?" asked Tum Tum of Hoy as he marched to the side of
+the barn where the elephants were kept.
+
+"Much harder," said the old elephant. "But I think you can do it."
+
+"I'll try, anyhow," spoke Tum Tum, with a jolly laugh. "I think tricks
+are fun."
+
+Standing on his front legs, with his hind ones in the air, was not as
+funny as he had thought. In the first place, he had to start with the
+rope, and, before he knew it, his hind legs were pulled out from under
+him, by the circus men, and Tum Tum was almost standing on his head. Hoy
+told him what to do, and how to balance himself, just as he told the
+other elephants, and soon Tum Tum could do it very well. When this
+practice was over, and when Tum Tum could stand on either his front or
+hind legs, without being pulled by a rope, he was given more carrots to
+eat.
+
+Tum Tum could now do two tricks, but, as you children know, who have
+seen elephants in a circus, there are many others that can be done.
+
+Elephants can be made to sit down in a low, strong chair, they can be
+made to stand on top of a small tub, to play see-saw, to ring bells,
+play hand organs with their trunks, and do many other queer things they
+never thought of doing in the jungle.
+
+Why, I have seen elephants fire cannon, wave flags, and play baseball.
+Elephants are very wonderful, and very wise and lively, for such big
+animals.
+
+As the winter days went by, Tum Tum learned many tricks in the circus.
+He learned to stand with other elephants, in a long row, and let the
+acrobats jump over him, and he also let the clowns jump right on his
+broad back. Tum Tum learned to do a little dance, too, but he never
+danced as well as the ponies could, for Tum Tum was very heavy. Tum Tum
+also learned how to walk across, and kneel down over his master, who lay
+flat on the sawdust, and though Tum Tum, with his big body, came very
+close to the man, he never touched him. If Tum Tum had stepped, even
+with one foot, on the man, he would have hurt him very much. But Tum Tum
+was careful.
+
+One day, when spring was near at hand, and when it was nearly time for
+the circus to travel on the road, from one town to another, Tum Tum was
+out in front of the barn, helping push some of the big circus wagons
+about. He pushed them with his strong head.
+
+All at once Tum Tum felt something bite him on the hind leg, and he
+heard a barking noise, such as monkeys sometimes make.
+
+"Is that you, Mappo?" asked Tum Tum quickly. He could not turn around,
+for he was pushing the wagon up hill.
+
+"Bow wow! Bow wow! Bow wow!" was the barking answer, and Tum Tum felt
+his legs nipped again.
+
+"Stop that, Mappo, if you please," said the big elephant. "Please don't
+do that, when I am pushing this wagon."
+
+But Tum Tum's leg was bitten again, and he cried:
+
+"Mappo, I shall squeeze you in my trunk, if you do not let me alone. I
+like a joke as well as you do, but it is no fun to have your legs nipped
+when you are pushing a heavy wagon. Stop it!"
+
+"Bow wow! Bow wow! Bow wow!" came the answer.
+
+"That doesn't sound exactly like Mappo," said Tum Tum. "I wonder who it
+can be?"
+
+When Tum Tum had pushed the wagon to the top of the hill, he could turn
+around. Then, instead of seeing the merry little monkey, he saw a big
+black and white dog, who was barking and nipping at his heels.
+
+"Oh, ho! So it is you, eh?" asked Tum Tum. "Who are you, and what are
+you biting me for?"
+
+"My name is Don," barked the dog, "and I am biting you to drive you
+away. I am afraid you might hurt my master. I never saw such an animal
+as you, with two tails. Go away!" and Don barked louder than before, and
+once more tried to bite the elephant's feet.
+
+"Here, Don! Don!" called a man's voice. "Come away from that elephant!"
+
+"Bow wow!" barked Don. "I am going to bite him!"
+
+"Oh, are you?" asked Tum Tum. And with that he reached out with his
+trunk, caught Don around the middle, and lifted him high in the air. Don
+did not bark now. He howled in fear.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+TUM TUM AND THE WAGON
+
+
+"Please let me down! Oh, please do!" begged Don, the dog, of Tum Tum,
+the jolly elephant, as the big creature from the jungle held the dog
+high up in the air.
+
+Tum Tum did not feel so very jolly just then. He did not want to hurt
+Don, but neither did the elephant like to be nipped on his hind legs,
+when he was pushing a wagon.
+
+"Oh, the elephant has our dog!" cried a boy who was with the man who had
+called after Don. "Oh, papa, will he hurt him?"
+
+"No, Tum Tum won't hurt anyone," said a circus man. "I'll get your dog
+back for you, but he must be careful of elephants after this."
+
+"He never saw one before," said the boy's father.
+
+All this while Tum Tum was holding Don high in the air in his trunk.
+
+"Oh, won't you let me down?" begged Don.
+
+"I will, if you won't bark at me again, and bite me," said Tum Tum. "I
+don't want to hurt you, doggie boy, but I can't have you bothering me,
+when I'm doing my circus work."
+
+[Illustration: All this while Tum Tum was holding Don high in the air in
+his trunk. Page 60]
+
+"Oh, I'll be good! I'll be good!" promised Don, and with that Tum Tum
+lowered him gently to the ground, uncoiled his trunk from around Don's
+middle, and the dog ran howling to his master and the boy.
+
+"Don, what made you bite the elephant?" asked the boy.
+
+Don only barked gently in answer. He could not speak man or boy talk,
+you know, any more than an elephant could, though he understood it very
+well.
+
+"I told you the elephant wouldn't hurt your dog," said the circus man.
+"Tum Tum is very gentle."
+
+Don crept behind his master, and looked at Tum Tum. The elephant walked
+down to get another wagon to push up hill, as all the circus horses were
+too busy to pull it.
+
+"Bow wow!" barked Don, but this time he was talking to Tum Tum, and not
+barking angrily at him. "Are you an elephant?" asked Don, in his own
+language, which the elephant understood very well.
+
+"Yes, I am an elephant," said Tum Tum.
+
+"And you have two tails," went on Don.
+
+Almost anyone who sees an elephant for the first time thinks that.
+
+"No, I have only one tail," Tum Tum answered. "The front thing is my
+trunk, or long nose. I breathe through it, pick up things to eat in it,
+and squirt water through it."
+
+"My! It is very useful, isn't it?" asked Don, wagging his tail.
+
+"Indeed it is," said Tum Tum. The elephant and the dog were fast
+becoming friends now, and were talking together, though the boy and his
+father and the circus men did not know this.
+
+"Then was it your trunk that you picked me up in?" asked Don, of the
+elephant.
+
+"Yes," replied Tum Tum, "and I am sorry if I frightened you."
+
+"Oh, well, that's all right," answered Don. "I am all right now, and I
+suppose I did wrong to bark at you, and bite. I am sorry."
+
+"Then I'll excuse you," spoke Tum Tum. "But what is your name, and where
+do you live?"
+
+"My name is Don, and I live on a farm," answered the dog. "We have a
+comical little pig on our farm named Squinty. Did you ever see him?"
+
+"I think not," answered Tum Tum. "You see I haven't been in this country
+very long. Did you bring the pig to the circus?"
+
+"Gracious, no!" barked Don. "He had to stay home in the pen. But my
+master, his boy and I came to see you elephants, and other circus
+animals. Only I never knew what an elephant was like before."
+
+"Well, now you know," said Tum Tum, "so you won't bark at, or bite, the
+next one you see."
+
+"Indeed I shall not," said Don. "I have to bark at Squinty, the comical
+pig, once in a while, when he gets out of the pen, and once I took hold
+of his ear in my teeth."
+
+"I hope you didn't hurt him," said Tum Tum.
+
+"No, I wouldn't do that for the world," said Don. And those of you who
+have read about "Squinty, the Comical Pig," know how kind Don was to
+him.
+
+"So you came to see the circus?" went on Tum Tum to Don, as the dog's
+master and his boy looked about at the strange sights.
+
+"Yes, though I don't know exactly what a circus is," said Don.
+
+"Well, this is the start of it," Tum Tum said. "These are our winter
+quarters. Soon we shall start out on the road, and live in a tent. Then
+I shall do my tricks, the children and the people will laugh and shout,
+and give me popcorn balls and peanuts. Oh, yum-yum!" and Tum Tum smacked
+his lips because he thought of the good things he was going to have to
+eat a little later on.
+
+"Can you do tricks?" asked Don.
+
+"Indeed I can, a great many," the elephant said. "I can stand on my hind
+feet--so!" and up he rose in the air, until his little short tail
+dangled on the ground.
+
+"Anything else?" asked Don. "That's a good trick. Let me see you do
+another."
+
+"Look!" cried Tum Tum, and this time he stood on his front legs, and
+raised his hind ones in the air.
+
+"That's harder to do," said the jolly elephant.
+
+"I should think so," agreed Don. "I'm going to try it myself." Don did
+try, but when he wanted to stand on his front legs, he fell over and
+bumped his nose. And when he tried to stand on his hind legs, he fell
+over backward and bumped his head.
+
+"I--I guess I can't do it," he said to Tum Tum.
+
+"It needs much practice to do it well," spoke the jolly elephant.
+
+"Here, Tum Tum!" called one of the circus men. "This is no time to be
+doing tricks. Come and help push some more of these wagons. If the
+circus is ever to start out on the road, to give shows in the tent, we
+must start soon. Come, push some of these wagons, with your big, strong
+head."
+
+"I'll have to go now," said Tum Tum to Don, the dog, for they were now
+good friends. "I may see you again, sometime."
+
+"I hope you will," spoke Don. "Your circus is coming to our town, I
+know, for the barns on our farm are pasted over with posters, and
+bills."
+
+"Then I may see you when we get there," said Tum Tum, as he walked
+slowly forward to push the wagon pointed out by the circus man.
+
+That is how Don and Tum Tum became acquainted. As the dog went off with
+his master and the boy, he barked a good-by to Tum Tum, saying:
+
+"If you come near our place, I'll show you Squinty, the comical pig. One
+eye is wide open, and the other partly shut."
+
+"He must be a funny chap," said Tum Tum. The big, jolly elephant pushed
+into place the heavy wagon. Then it was dinner time. But as Tum Tum was
+eating his hay and carrots in the animal tent, for he was kept in that,
+now that the weather was warmer, all at once Tum Tum heard a loud
+shouting.
+
+"Look out for that wagon. The tiger cage wagon is rolling down hill. It
+will turn over, be smashed, and the tiger will get out! Stop that
+wagon, somebody!"
+
+Tum Tum heard this shouting, and looking out of the side of his tent, he
+saw a big red and gold wagon rushing down the hill backwards.
+
+"I must stop that wagon," said Tum Tum.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+TUM TUM LOOKS FOR MAPPO
+
+
+Tum Tum, the jolly elephant, pulled hard on the chain that held his big
+leg fast to a stake driven into the ground. He wanted to get loose so he
+could stop the wagon from rolling down hill, maybe upsetting and letting
+the big tiger out.
+
+"I know I can stop the wagon, if they will only take this chain off my
+leg, so I can get out there," thought Tum Tum, as he pulled and tugged
+at the chain and peg.
+
+Outside the tent men were running and shouting. Some of them tried to
+put stones in the way of the wagon wheels, but the tiger's cage was so
+heavy that it rolled right over the stones.
+
+The tiger was frightened and angry, and he growled and snarled, until
+you would have thought he was back in the jungle again.
+
+"Let me loose! Let me loose!" trumpeted Tum Tum through his trunk, as he
+waved it to and fro. Of course none of the circus men could understand
+this language, but Tum Tum's keeper knew what the big elephant meant.
+
+The keeper came running in the tent.
+
+"Tum Tum!" he cried. "I believe you can stop that wagon. Stop the tiger
+cage! Get in front of it, and push on it with your big head. That will
+stop it from rolling down hill!"
+
+"I will! I will!" said Tum Tum, only, of course, he spoke in elephant
+language.
+
+The keeper soon took the chain off Tum Tum's leg, and the big elephant
+rushed out of the tent, and toward the rolling wagon. None of the men
+had yet been able to stop it, and it was half way down the hill now,
+going faster and faster. Inside, the tiger was growling and snarling
+louder than ever, and trying to break out through the iron bars.
+
+"Look out! He'll get away!" cried Mappo, who had run and jumped inside
+the cage with the other monkeys. "Old Sharp Tooth will get loose."
+
+"No, he won't!" said Tum Tum, who was now going toward the tiger's cage
+as fast as he could. "Don't be afraid, Mappo," the elephant went on, for
+he knew monkeys are very much afraid of tigers. "I won't let him get
+you, Mappo," said Tum Tum.
+
+On rushed the big elephant toward the rolling cage. He got in front of
+it, and then he stood still, in the middle of the hill, waiting for the
+tiger's cage, on wheels, to roll down to him.
+
+"Look out, Tum Tum, or it will hit you!" chattered Mappo.
+
+"That's what I want it to do," said Tum Tum. "But it can't hurt me, as
+my head is so big and strong. Now you watch me!"
+
+On came the tiger's cage. Tum Tum stood there ready to let it bunk into
+him. His legs were spread far apart so he himself would not be knocked
+over.
+
+Bang!
+
+That was the tiger's cage hitting Tum Tum on the head.
+
+"Ouch!" yelled the big elephant through his trunk, for though it did not
+hurt him much, he felt a little pain.
+
+Then he stood there, and pushed so hard on the big wagon, that it could
+not roll down hill any more. Instead, it began to roll back up the hill,
+as Tum Tum pushed on it.
+
+"That's the way to do it, Tum Tum!" cried the elephant's keeper. "I knew
+you could do it. Come on now, old fellow. Push the cage right back where
+it belongs."
+
+Tum Tum did so. Soon the tiger's cage was in line with those of the
+lions, wolves, bears and other animals, ready for the circus to begin.
+
+"Oh, but I'm glad the tiger didn't get loose," said Mappo, to Tum Tum.
+"I was so afraid!"
+
+"Why were you afraid?" the big elephant wanted to know.
+
+"Oh, because Sharp Tooth, the tiger, does not like me. I am sure he
+would bite me, if he got loose."
+
+"Why would he do that?" asked Tum Tum.
+
+"Because I would not let him out of his cage, when he and I were caught
+in the jungle," answered the monkey.
+
+Then he told about the time Sharp Tooth had tried to get out of his
+cage.
+
+"Never fear, Mappo," said Tum Tum. "I'll not let Sharp Tooth hurt you as
+long as I am around."
+
+"Thank you," said Mappo.
+
+For several days after this the circus went from town to town, traveling
+after dark each night, so as to be ready to give a show in the day-time.
+
+One day Sharp Tooth, the tiger, spoke to Tum Tum as the elephant was
+passing the cage.
+
+"Why did you stop my wagon from rolling down hill, Tum Tum?" asked the
+tiger.
+
+"Because I did not want to see it smashed, and see you thrown out, Sharp
+Tooth," answered Tum Tum.
+
+"But that is just what I wanted to do--get out," spoke the tiger. "I
+want to get loose! I am tired of staying in the cage!"
+
+"But if you got out, you might bite someone," went on Tum Tum.
+
+"Yes, that is just what I would do," growled the tiger. "I would bite
+and scratch until the men would be glad to let me go back to my jungle
+again. I am mad at you for not letting my cage run on. If you had, I
+would now be free."
+
+"Well, I am glad you are not free," said Tum Tum, as he looked at the
+sharp teeth and sharp claws of the tiger, and thought of little Mappo.
+
+"Then I am mad at you, and I am going to stay mad," said the tiger, and
+he sulked in his cage.
+
+Tum Tum was not very much afraid of the tiger now, even though he knew
+the bad animal might some day get loose and scratch him.
+
+"I don't believe Sharp Tooth will ever get out," said Tum Tum to
+himself.
+
+The big elephant had good times in the circus. He had to do only a few
+tricks in the afternoon, and some more in the evening. The rest of the
+time he could eat or sleep, except when the circus moved from place to
+place. Then he would have to help the other elephants push the heavy
+wagons up on the railroad trains. But Tum Tum did not mind this.
+
+What he liked, best of all, was to stand in the animal tent, before and
+after his trick performances, and watch the children and grown people
+come in to look at him and the other animals. Some of the little
+children seemed afraid of the elephants, but when Tum Tum saw one of
+these frightened little tots, he would just put out his trunk, and
+gently stroke some other little boy or girl, so as to show how gentle he
+was. Then the frightened one's mother or father would say:
+
+"See, the good elephant will not hurt you. Come, give him some peanuts
+or popcorn."
+
+Then the child would hand Tum Tum a peanut, and Tum Tum would eat it
+with a twinkle in his little eyes.
+
+Of course Tum Tum would much rather have had a whole bag full of peanuts
+at a time, for he could put them all in his mouth, and more, at once.
+
+Still, Tum Tum was glad enough to get single peanuts at a time, and
+though it was hard work to chew a single one in his big mouth, just as
+it would be hard for you to chew just one grain of sugar, still Tum Tum
+was very polite, and he never refused to take the single peanuts.
+
+"A big ball of popcorn makes something pretty good to chew on," said Tum
+Tum to one of the elephants chained near him. "I like that, don't you?"
+
+"Indeed I do," the elephant said. "We never got anything as nice as
+popcorn and peanuts in the jungle, did we?"
+
+"No," answered Tum Tum, thinking of the days in the dense jungle. Tum
+Tum wondered what had become of Mr. Boom and where his father and
+mother, and his other elephant friends, might be.
+
+"I suppose they are still back in the lumber yard, piling up teakwood
+logs," thought Tum Tum. "I am glad I am in the circus, even if I did
+have to be pulled up with a rope to make me learn how to stand on my
+head and my hind legs."
+
+Tum Tum could do many other tricks besides these now, and he was such a
+jolly old elephant, always doing as he was told without any grumbling,
+that all the circus men liked him.
+
+If there was anything hard to do, or any trick that none of the other
+elephants could go through, Tum Tum was sure to be called on.
+
+"He is the smartest elephant of all," his keeper would say, and this
+made Tum Tum feel very proud and happy.
+
+One day there was much excitement in the animal tent, and at first Tum
+Tum thought maybe the tiger had gotten loose again, or that another big
+cage had rolled down hill.
+
+When one of the animal men rushed in and called out something, Tum Tum
+knew it was not that.
+
+"One of the monkeys is missing," said one trainer to another. "It is
+Mappo, that smart one."
+
+"Ha! Is that so?" asked the other. "How did he get loose?"
+
+"He must have slipped out of the cage, when we were on the road. Come,
+we are going to try to find him."
+
+"I know a good way," said the keeper of Tum Tum. "I shall take my
+elephant with me. My elephant and that monkey Mappo were good friends.
+If Mappo sees Tum Tum, he will be glad to come back. So we will take Tum
+Tum to hunt Mappo."
+
+"Ha! That is good!" thought Tum Tum, as he listened.
+
+Soon the hunt for Mappo began. Many of the circus men started for the
+woods to look for the lost monkey. Tum Tum went along also, his keeper
+riding on his back.
+
+"I wonder if we will find Mappo?" thought Tum Tum.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII
+
+TUM TUM AND THE FIRE
+
+
+Through the woods, near the circus town, went the men looking for lost
+Mappo. They wanted to get back the monkey because he was such a good one
+to do tricks, and because the children, many of whom came to the circus,
+liked to see him ride on the back of a dog, or pony, and jump through
+paper-covered hoops.
+
+"We must find Mappo!" cried the keeper who had him in charge.
+
+Mappo had run away, as I have told you in the book about his adventures,
+because he was afraid Sharp Tooth, the big tiger, would get loose and
+bite him. In the woods he had many wonderful adventures.
+
+He met Slicko, the jumping girl squirrel, about whom I have told you,
+and also Squinty, the comical pig. Mappo liked Squinty, the pig, very
+much, for Squinty was a nice little chap.
+
+On and on went Tum Tum and the men, looking for the lost monkey. After
+the search had gone on for several hours, Mappo, who was walking along
+through the woods with Squinty, saw the circus men coming after him.
+
+"Here's where I have to run and hide," said Mappo.
+
+"Why?" grunted Squinty, the comical pig.
+
+"Because the circus men are after me. Look!" and the monkey chap pointed
+through the woods to where could be seen some men in red coats.
+
+"Oh, and look at that funny animal with two tails!" cried Squinty. "I'd
+be afraid of him."
+
+"You wouldn't need to be," said Mappo. "That is only Tum Tum, the
+elephant, and he is very jolly. He would not hurt a fly. I guess he is
+looking for me, but, as I don't want to go back to the circus just yet,
+I'll go off in the woods and hide."
+
+"And I guess I'll go hide, too," said Squinty, for he, also, had run
+away, but not from a circus. He had run away from his pen at the
+farm--the farm where Don, the dog, lived.
+
+So Mappo hurried off to climb a tall tree. As Tum Tum went along through
+the bushes, he saw his little monkey friend.
+
+"Ha! There is Mappo!" said Tum Tum to himself, and he hurried on through
+the woods.
+
+"Wait a minute, Mappo!" called Tum Tum, in animal language.
+
+But Mappo would not wait, and Tum Tum could not tell the circus men
+with him that the lost monkey was just ahead of them. Tum Tum could not
+speak man talk, you know, and the circus men had not yet seen Mappo. So
+the little monkey got away.
+
+Tum Tum saw a little animal with Mappo, and the elephant said to
+himself:
+
+"Ha! That must be Squinty, the comical pig, of whom Don, the dog, told
+me. I would like to meet Squinty, but I don't see how I can. He can run
+through these woods faster than I can. Well, maybe I will see him some
+day. And I do hope Mappo comes back to the circus. It will be lonesome
+without him."
+
+But Mappo had many adventures before he came back to the circus.
+
+"Well, I guess it's no use hunting for him any more," said one of the
+circus men. "That monkey has gotten far away. We had better go back to
+the tents."
+
+"Yes, I think we had," said the man who was riding on the back of Tum
+Tum.
+
+The elephant knew that Mappo was not so very far off, but Tum Tum had no
+way of telling his keeper about it.
+
+Back to the circus went Tum Tum, and another monkey had to do the tricks
+that Mappo used to do in the performances that day.
+
+"What happened?" asked Sharp Tooth, the tiger, of Tum Tum, as the
+elephant went past the cage of the striped beast. "Where did you go a
+little while ago?"
+
+"Out looking for Mappo, the monkey," answered Tum Tum.
+
+"Did he run away?" asked the tiger.
+
+"Yes, I guess he was afraid you would bite him."
+
+"And so I would, if I could get him," snarled the tiger. "He is to blame
+for me being shut up in this cage."
+
+Tum Tum said nothing, for he did not want to get in a quarrel with the
+tiger.
+
+Day after day went past in the circus, and still Mappo did not come
+back. Sometimes Tum Tum was lonesome for his little monkey friend, but
+there was so much to do, that no one in a circus could be lonesome for
+very long at a time.
+
+Tum Tum was learning some new tricks, and this took up much of his time.
+Each day he was growing bigger and stronger, for he was not a very old
+elephant, when he had been caught in the jungle. Now he was very strong,
+and he could easily have pushed two heavy animal cages at once. He was
+the strongest elephant in the whole circus.
+
+One day, when the circus was going along the road from one town to
+another, one of the wagons became stuck fast in the mud, for it had
+rained in the night. It was the wagon in which rode the hippopotamus,
+with his big red mouth that he could open so wide.
+
+The whole circus procession had to stop, or at least all the wagons
+behind the hippopotamus cage, had to stop, as they could not get past.
+
+"Bring up some of the elephants, and have them pull the hippo's cage out
+of the mud!" cried the head circus man. He called him "hippo" for short,
+you see.
+
+Up came two big elephants, and chains were put about their necks, and
+made fast to the hippopotamus wagon.
+
+"Now, pull!" cried the circus men, and the elephants strained and pulled
+as hard as they could.
+
+But the wagon did not move out of the mud.
+
+"Pull harder!" cried the circus man, and he cracked his long whip, but
+he did not hit the elephants with it.
+
+But, no matter how hard the elephants pulled, they could not pull the
+hippopotamus wagon out of the mud.
+
+"Well, what are we going to do?" asked the head circus man. "We cannot
+stay here all day."
+
+"Suppose you let my elephant, Tum Tum, try to pull the wagon out of the
+mud," said Tum Tum's keeper. "My elephant is very strong."
+
+"Ha! But is he as strong as two elephants?" asked the head circus man.
+
+"I think so," said the keeper. "Let us try. But Tum Tum can push better
+than he can pull, so I shall put him in back of the wagon, and let him
+push it out of the mud with his head. Let some of the men steer the
+wagon in front, when Tum Tum pushes from behind."
+
+"Very well, we shall try," said the head circus man.
+
+The ten horses who pulled the hippopotamus wagon had been unhitched when
+the two elephants tried to pull it. Now the two elephants were led to
+one side, and Tum Tum came up.
+
+"Ha! He thinks he can push that wagon out of the mud, when we two could
+not pull it," said one elephant to the other.
+
+"Yes, he is very proud," spoke the other.
+
+Tum Tum heard them.
+
+"No, I am not proud," said Tum Tum, "and I am not sure that I can push
+the wagon out of the mud, but I am going to try."
+
+His keeper led him up in back of the hippopotamus wagon. It was very
+large and heavy, and had settled far down in the soft mud of the road.
+The hippo was still in it, and the hippo was very heavy himself,
+weighing as much as two tons of coal. The circus men could not let the
+hippopotamus out of his cage, because he was rather wild, and might
+have run away or made trouble. So they had to leave him in.
+
+"Now, Tum Tum, you have some hard work ahead of you!" said his trainer,
+as he led the elephant up behind the wagon. "Let me see, if you can push
+this out of the mud hole."
+
+"Umph! Umph!" grunted Tum Tum through his trunk. That was his way of
+saying that he would do his best.
+
+Tum Tum went close up to the wagon, and stuck his four big feet well
+down in the mud to brace himself. Then he put his large head against the
+wagon, and began to push.
+
+Tum Tum took a long breath, and then he pushed, and pushed and pushed
+some more.
+
+"He can never do it," said one of the two elephants who had tried to
+pull the wagon.
+
+"Indeed he cannot," spoke the other.
+
+"Wait and see!" grunted Tum Tum. "I have not finished yet."
+
+He pushed harder and harder. His head was hurting him, and his feet were
+slipping in the mud of the road. Still he kept on pushing.
+
+"I don't believe your elephant can do it," said one of the circus men.
+"We had better hitch about four of them to the wagon."
+
+"No, let Tum Tum try once more. I am sure he can do it," spoke the
+elephant's kind keeper.
+
+When Tum Tum heard this, he felt himself swell up inside. It was as
+though he had new strength.
+
+"I _will_ push that wagon!" he said to himself. "I _will_ push it out of
+the mud!"
+
+Then he took another long breath, and pushed with all his might on the
+wagon.
+
+"Now it's going!" cried Tum Tum.
+
+Slowly at first, and then faster, the big hippopotamus wagon rolled out
+of the mud, and on to the firm, hard road.
+
+"There it goes!" cried a circus man.
+
+"Hurray! Tum Tum has done it!" shouted another.
+
+"I told you he was strong," said Tum Tum's keeper.
+
+"He surely is," spoke the head circus man. "But I never thought he could
+push that wagon."
+
+Tum Tum had not thought so himself, but even an elephant never knows
+what he can do until he tries.
+
+"Huh! I s'pose he thinks he's smart, because he pushed a wagon we
+couldn't," said one of the two elephants to the other.
+
+"Yes," said the second one, "but if they'd given us another chance, we
+could have done it, too."
+
+[Illustration: The big hippopotamus wagon rolled out of the mud, and on
+to the firm, hard road. Page 84]
+
+But I do not believe they could. And Tum Tum did not think he was
+"smart," either. He only felt that he had done what he had been told to
+do, even though it was hard work, and did hurt his head.
+
+So the hippopotamus wagon was pushed out of the mud, and the circus
+procession went on down the road.
+
+It was not long after this that something else happened to Tum Tum. The
+elephant seemed to be having many adventures since he came from the
+jungle.
+
+The circus had gone on and on, showing in many different places. Tum
+Tum, in each place, had looked to see if Mappo had come back, but the
+little monkey had not. Perhaps he was still off in the woods with
+Squinty, the comical pig.
+
+It was a very hot day, and the animals in their cages, and the
+elephants, camels and horses, in the tent, had hard work to get a cool
+breeze or find any fresh air to breathe. In the west were some black
+clouds that looked as though they would bring a thunder shower.
+
+Just before the show began, Tum Tum was taken out of the tent to help
+push some of the heavy wagons into place.
+
+"Oh, look at the elephant!" cried some boys who had no money to go
+inside and see the show. They were glad to see even an elephant.
+
+Tum Tum finished his work of pushing the wagons into place and his
+trainer led him toward a big tub filled with water, for he knew his pet
+elephant would want a drink, as it was so hot.
+
+Near the water tub stood a peanut wagon, and the smell of the roasting
+nuts made Tum Tum hungry for some. But he knew the children in the
+circus would soon give him plenty.
+
+All of a sudden some boys, who were trying to get closer to Tum Tum, ran
+into the peanut wagon, and tipped it over. All at once the red-hot
+charcoal that kept the peanuts warm, spilled out, and the wagon, and
+some straw near it, caught fire. My, how it blazed!
+
+"Fire! Fire!" cried the peanut man. "Oh, somebody put out the fire, or
+all my peanuts will be burned up!"
+
+Tum Tum looked at the fire, and wondered if he could help put it out.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX
+
+TUM TUM AND THE BALLOONS
+
+
+"Come away, Tum Tum!" cried the elephant's keeper. "I don't want you
+getting all excited about a fire, and maybe burned. A few peanuts are
+not worth it. We'll let some of the tent men put out the fire. Come
+away!"
+
+But Tum Tum did not want to go away from the fire. He was not much
+afraid of it. Most wild animals are afraid of fire, but Tum Tum was tame
+now, and he knew that though fire burns, it also does good, in cooking
+food, even for animals. Besides, Tum Tum had seen so much of fire, since
+he had come to the circus, and had seen so many flaring lamps at the
+night performances, that he was not afraid of just a blazing peanut
+wagon.
+
+"I'm sorry to see all those peanuts burned up," thought Tum Tum. "I
+wonder if I can't save them--maybe I'll get some for myself, if I do."
+
+Tum Tum thought quickly. There was a great deal of excitement around
+him, for the straw was now blazing in many places and the peanuts and
+wagon were all in flames.
+
+"Come away, Tum Tum!" called his keeper.
+
+"Fire! Fire! Fire!" yelled the peanut man.
+
+"Bring water here, somebody!" shouted another man.
+
+"Get a pail! Get a pail!" one of the boys yelled.
+
+"Call out the fire engines!" said another.
+
+But Tum Tum knew a better way than that. His trunk was just like a hose,
+only, of course, not so long. He could suck it up full of water, and
+squirt it out again, just like a pop gun shoots out a cork. And that was
+what Tum Tum did.
+
+He put his trunk into the tub of water, and sucked up as much as he
+could. Then Tum Tum aimed his trunk right at the blazing peanut wagon
+and the straw.
+
+Whooo-ish! went the water, as Tum Tum squirted it out of his trunk. On
+the fire it spattered.
+
+Hiss-s-s-s-s! went the fire, like an angry snake.
+
+"Ha! That's the way to do it, Tum Tum!" cried his keeper. "You know how
+to put out a fire! That's the way. You're as good as a fire engine
+yourself!"
+
+Tum Tum did not answer. In the first place, he could not talk to his
+keeper except in elephant language, which the circus man did not
+understand. And, in the second place, Tum Tum was going to suck up more
+water in his nose, for the fire was not quite out yet. And you know it
+is hard to talk when you have your nose full of water, even if you are
+an elephant.
+
+Whooo-ish! went more water from Tum Tum's trunk on the blazing peanut
+wagon and straw.
+
+Hiss! went the fire again, as it felt the wet water. Fire does not like
+water, you know.
+
+"Once more, Tum Tum! One more trunk full, and you'll have the fire out!"
+cried the elephant's keeper.
+
+Again Tum Tum dipped his trunk into the tub of water, and spurted it on
+the fire.
+
+This time the fire went out completely. Tum Tum had made it so wet, with
+water from his trunk, that it could no longer burn.
+
+"Oh, what a smart, good elephant!" cried the peanut man. "He saved my
+wagon from burning up. I must give him some peanuts!"
+
+A few of the peanuts were burned, but there were plenty left, and,
+though some of them tasted a little like smoke, Tum Tum did not mind
+that. He chewed several bags full--shells and all--and was hungry for
+more.
+
+But now it was time to go back into the circus tent, and have his
+handsome blanket put on, to take his place in the procession. The boys,
+one of whom had accidentally upset the peanut wagon, looked at Tum Tum
+eagerly.
+
+"Say, he's a smart elephant all right!" he cried.
+
+"That's what he is!" said another. "I'd like to have him!"
+
+"Huh! What would you do with an elephant?" asked his friend. "An
+elephant would eat a ton of hay a day."
+
+"Would he?"
+
+"Sure he would."
+
+"Well, then, I don't want an elephant," said the boy. "I guess a dog is
+good enough for me. A dog can eat old bones; he doesn't need a ton of
+hay a day."
+
+The boys helped the peanut man turn his wagon right side up, and they
+also helped him gather the scattered peanuts. Then the man built another
+fire, and went around the tent, selling his peanuts.
+
+"Tum Tum, you are getting smarter and smarter each day," said his
+keeper, as he led him back to get ready for the parade. "I am proud of
+you. You are the best elephant in the circus."
+
+Tum Tum heard what was said of him, but he only flapped his big ears,
+that were nearly the size of washtubs. Then he stood in line with his
+companions, and ate the peanuts and popcorn balls the children fed to
+him over the ropes.
+
+"My, I s'pose Tum Tum will be so stuck up, and proud, that he won't want
+to speak to us, after he has done so many wonderful things," said one of
+the jealous elephants. "He pushed the wagon out of the mud, and now he
+has put out a peanut wagon fire. Some elephants have all the luck in
+this world."
+
+Tum Tum's eyes twinkled, but he said nothing. He just ate the popcorn
+balls and peanuts. But he was not at all proud or stuck up.
+
+Tum Tum was now such a gentle and tame elephant, that children could
+ride on his back. At first, some of the circus performers, who had their
+children with them, let them get up on Tum Tum, and then, when his
+keeper found that Tum Tum did not mind, some of the boys and girls who
+came to see the show each day were allowed to ride. Up and down the tent
+they went on Tum Tum's back, sitting in the little house that was
+strapped fast to him.
+
+Tum Tum was led about by his keeper when the children thus rode, and
+very glad Tum Tum was to give the boys and girls this fun, for he liked
+children very much.
+
+Tum Tum would have been very glad if Mappo, the merry monkey, had come
+back to ride on his back, as he did sometimes. But Mappo was far away;
+where, Tum Tum did not know.
+
+Nearly every day something new happened to Tum Tum in the circus. Every
+day he saw new faces, new boys and girls and once in a while, he did
+some new tricks. He had enough to eat, a good place to sleep, he did not
+have to work very hard, and, best of all, he was in no danger.
+
+So, altogether, Tum Tum liked the circus life much better than he had
+liked being in the jungle. Still, now and again, he would wish himself
+back in the cool, dark woods, smashing through the thick bushes, and
+breaking down, or pulling up, big trees by their roots.
+
+In the circus were some men from India, where Tum Tum had worked in the
+lumber yard, piling up teakwood logs, and these Indians could talk the
+language spoken in India--the man-language Tum Tum had first learned. He
+liked to have them come to see him, rub his trunk, and talk to him in
+their queer words.
+
+One day another adventure happened to Tum Tum. He was out in front of
+the circus tent, after he had helped roll some of the heavy animal
+wagons into place, when he saw some children, with their papa, coming to
+the circus.
+
+"Oh, papa!" cried a little boy, "couldn't we ride on the elephant's
+back?" and he was so excited, this little boy was, that he danced up and
+down with his red balloon. All the children had these toy balloons.
+
+"Oh, I don't believe you could ride on the elephant's back," said the
+little boy's papa.
+
+"They can, if you will let them," said Tum Tum's keeper. "My elephant is
+very kind and gentle, and many children ride on him. I will hold them
+on, if you are willing."
+
+"Oh, let us, papa!" cried a little girl.
+
+"All right, I don't mind," he said.
+
+Tum Tum was led close to a wagon, from which the children could easily
+get into the little house on his back. In that they sat with their papa
+and the keeper, and around the circus grounds they went. It was not yet
+time for the show, and Tum Tum did not have to go in.
+
+"Oh, what a lovely ride!" cried the little boy, when it was over. "Thank
+you so much!"
+
+Tum Tum was glad the children had enjoyed it.
+
+Then, as the boy and girl got down from the elephant's back, their toy
+balloons slipped out of their hands and floated off through the air.
+
+"Oh, there goes my balloon!" cried the little girl.
+
+"And there goes mine, too!" cried the little boy. "Oh, papa!"
+
+"Never mind, I'll get you some others," said the man.
+
+"But I'd rather have that one," the little boy said, half crying.
+
+"I would, too," added his sister.
+
+Just then the wind blew the two balloons into the top of a tall tree. It
+was a tall, slender tree, too little for any one to climb up, or put a
+ladder against.
+
+"Oh, now we can never get our balloons!" sobbed the little girl, as the
+toys bobbed about in the wind, the strings fast to a tree branch. Then
+Tum Tum made up his mind, just as he had done at the peanut fire.
+
+"I'll get those balloons back for the children," thought the big, kind,
+jolly elephant.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X
+
+TUM TUM AND THE LEMONADE
+
+
+The little boy and girl, who had ridden on the back of Tum Tum, the
+jolly elephant, stretched up their hands toward the balloons that had
+caught in the tree. They even got up again into the little house, and,
+standing up, tried to reach their floating toys.
+
+"Sit down! Sit down!" called their father.
+
+"Yes, you might fall," said Tum Tum's trainer, or keeper, who was also
+riding in the little house on the elephant's back.
+
+"But we want our balloons!" cried the little boy.
+
+"Yes, our nice toy balloons!" said the little girl, and there were tears
+in her eyes. Tum Tum felt sorry for her. He did not like to see little
+girls cry.
+
+"I must get those balloons back for them," Tum Tum said to himself, over
+and over again.
+
+"I'll get you other balloons," said the children's papa again, trying to
+make them feel happier. But the boy and girl wanted the same balloons
+they had had first.
+
+"Now if Mappo were only here," thought Tum Tum, "he could easily climb
+up that tree, even if it is a slender one, and will easily bend. For
+Mappo is not very heavy, and he could go away up to the top of the tree.
+
+"But no one else can, and none of the monkeys but Mappo is smart enough
+to do it. So I'll have to get the balloons myself."
+
+And how do you think Tum Tum did it? Of course he could not climb a
+tree--no elephant could, even if it were a big tree. But Tum Tum was
+very strong, and, just as he had often done in the jungle, he wrapped
+his long, rubbery hose-like nose, or trunk, around the tree.
+
+"Here, Tum Tum, what are you doing?" called his keeper.
+
+"Umph! Umph! Wumph!" Tum Tum answered. That meant: "You just watch me,
+if you please, and you'll see."
+
+Then Tum Tum just pulled and pulled as hard on that tree, and up he
+pulled it by the roots. Right out of the ground the big elephant pulled
+the tree, and then, holding it in his strong trunk, he tipped it over so
+the top branches were close to the children on his back.
+
+And, tangled in the branches were the cords of the toy balloons, that
+still bobbed about.
+
+[Illustration: Right out of the ground the big elephant pulled the tree.
+Page 98]
+
+"Oh, look!" cried the boy. "Here are our balloons, sister!"
+
+"Oh, so they are!" exclaimed the little girl. "Oh, what a good elephant
+he is to get our balloons back for us!"
+
+"I should say he was!" cried the papa. "That is a smart elephant you
+have," he said to the keeper.
+
+"Yes, Tum Tum is very good and smart," said the circus man. He reached
+over, loosed the strings of the balloons from the tree branch, and gave
+the ends of the cords to the children.
+
+"Now you may let go of the tree, Tum Tum," the man said to the elephant,
+and Tum Tum dropped the tree on the ground.
+
+"Oh, papa, the elephant was so good to us, can't we buy him a bag of
+peanuts?" asked the little girl.
+
+"I guess so," answered her papa, with a laugh.
+
+"And may I buy him some popcorn balls?" asked the boy.
+
+"Oh, yes, but I hope Tum Tum doesn't become ill from all that sweet
+stuff," said the papa.
+
+"Oh, I guess he won't--he's used to being fed by the children," the
+circus man said.
+
+When Tum Tum heard the boy and girl talking about getting him good
+things to eat, the big elephant felt very glad. For he was such a big
+fellow that he was nearly always hungry, and, no matter how many
+peanuts or popcorn balls he had, he was always willing to eat more.
+
+It was now nearly time for the circus to begin, and Tum Tum was led back
+toward the tent, the children still riding on his back, holding tightly
+to the strings of their balloons. They were not going to lose them a
+second time, if they could help it.
+
+Near the tent was the same peanut man whose stand had nearly burned up
+the time Tum Tum put out the blaze with water from his trunk. The boy
+and girl bought two bags full of peanuts from this man, and from another
+man they bought popcorn balls. These they fed to Tum Tum, who reached
+out his trunk for them, and put them into his mouth.
+
+"Good-by, Tum Tum!" called the little girl to him, waving one hand,
+while in the other she held her balloon.
+
+"Good-by, elephant!" called the little boy, also waving his hand. "I'll
+see you in the circus," he added.
+
+Tum Tum waved his trunk. He was too busy chewing popcorn and peanuts to
+speak, even if he could have talked boy and girl language, which he
+could not.
+
+Later on, in the show, Tum Tum, as he went through his tricks, saw the
+little boy and girl sitting near the ring, with their papa, watching
+the animals and performers.
+
+Two or three days after that something else happened to Tum Tum, and it
+made him very happy.
+
+He was in the tent, after the show, eating his hay, and blowing dust
+over his back now and then to keep away the flies and mosquitoes, when,
+all of a sudden, in came a monkey. Tum Tum gave one look at the monkey,
+and then another look.
+
+"Why--why!" cried Tum Tum, in elephant language. "That looks like
+Mappo."
+
+"I am Mappo!" cried the little chap. "Oh, don't let him get me!"
+
+"Let who get you?" cried Tum Tum. "What is the matter?" for Mappo looked
+very frightened.
+
+"The hand-organ man is after me!" chattered Mappo, and with that he gave
+a jump, and landed right upon Tum Tum's broad back.
+
+"Don't be afraid," said the elephant. "No one will get you while I am
+here, Mappo," and Tum Tum swung his long trunk.
+
+Then in came the hand-organ man after the monkey, just as I have told
+you he did in the book about Mappo. But the circus men and Tum Tum would
+not let Mappo go. And Tum Tum looked so big and fierce and strong that
+the hand-organ man was afraid to try to take Mappo away.
+
+So that is how Mappo came back to the circus again, after having had
+many adventures. He told Tum Tum all about them.
+
+"Are you going to run away again?" asked Tum Tum.
+
+"No, I guess not," answered Mappo, hanging by his tail.
+
+Tum Tum was glad Mappo had come back, for the big elephant was lonesome
+for his little friend, and I guess Mappo was also lonesome for Tum Tum.
+At any rate, the two were soon as good friends as before.
+
+The show went on from town to town, and it was nearing the time for the
+circus season to be over. Then the animals would be taken back to the
+big barn, there to stay all winter, until spring and summer should come
+again.
+
+One day a bad man came into the tent where the elephants were standing,
+eating their hay, and held out something in his hand. Tum Tum, and the
+other elephants, stretched out their trunks, for it seemed as if the man
+had something good for them to eat. And Tum Tum, being the nearest,
+reached it first.
+
+The thing the man held out was in a bag, and it smelled like peanuts. In
+fact, there were a few peanuts, and shells, in the bag but, besides
+that, there were also some sour lemons, which Tum Tum did not like at
+all. But he had chewed on them before he knew what they were, not
+stopping to open the bag the bad man gave him.
+
+As he felt the sour juice running down his throat, Tum Tum gave a
+squeal. He was angry at the man who had played this trick on him.
+
+"Ha! Ha!" laughed the man. "I fooled you that time, Mr. Elephant. How do
+you like lemons?"
+
+Tum Tum did not answer.
+
+He just reached his trunk in his mouth, and pulled out the sour stuff,
+and threw it away. The man laughed very hard at his mean trick, and one
+of the keepers said to him:
+
+"You had better look out. Elephants have good memories, and if ever you
+get near Tum Tum, where he can reach you, you may be sorry for what you
+did."
+
+"Oh, I'm not afraid of an elephant!" cried the man with another laugh.
+
+"If ever I can reach that man with my trunk, I'll make him wish he'd
+never given me lemons," thought Tum Tum. But, try as he did, he could
+not stretch himself far enough to reach the man, for there were chains
+about the legs of the elephant.
+
+Later on that day, the same man came walking past the elephants in the
+animal tent, after the circus was over. I guess he had forgotten about
+the trick he played. But Tum Tum and the other elephants had not
+forgotten.
+
+All of a sudden Maggo, the elephant standing next to Tum Tum, saw the
+bad man, and, reaching out her trunk, Maggo caught him around the waist,
+and lifted him off his feet.
+
+"Oh! Oh! Put me down! Oh, an elephant has me!" cried the man.
+
+Instantly there was great excitement in the animal tent. The people
+yelled, and the trainers came running over to see what was the matter.
+They saw the man lifted high in the air in Maggo's trunk.
+
+"Put him down! Put him down at once!" cried Maggo's keeper.
+
+But Maggo was not going to do that at once.
+
+"Now is your chance, Tum Tum," said Maggo. "I'll hold this bad man, who
+gave you lemons instead of peanuts, and you can hit him with your
+trunk."
+
+"No, I'll not do that," said Tum Tum, who was very gentle. "If I did, I
+might hurt him, for I strike very hard with my trunk. But I will fix
+him, so he will not play any more tricks on elephants."
+
+Then Tum Tum dipped his trunk in a tub of water near by, and, suddenly,
+spurted it all over the man, making him as wet as if he had gone in
+swimming.
+
+"Oh, my! Oh, dear! Oh, stop it!" cried the man excitedly, with the water
+squirting all over him.
+
+"Let him down now, Maggo," said Tum Tum, with a queer little twinkle,
+like laughter, in his eyes. "I guess he won't want to play any more
+tricks."
+
+Maggo set down the dripping man, who was glad enough to run away. He did
+not once look back.
+
+"It served you right, for giving Tum Tum lemons," said a keeper. "Some
+elephants would have done worse than just to squirt water on you."
+
+One afternoon it was very hot in the circus. It was so hot that the
+sides of the animal tent were lowered to let in the air, but, even at
+that it was not very cool.
+
+"Don't you wish we were back in the jungle, near some river, where we
+could wade in and float until the sun went down?" asked Maggo of Tum
+Tum.
+
+"Indeed I do," was the answer. "But there is no use wishing."
+
+"It doesn't seem so," spoke Maggo, and she fanned herself with her large
+ears, in a way elephants have. "I wish I had something cool to drink,"
+went on Maggo.
+
+"Yes, a nice, cool drink would be just fine," said Tum Tum. "But I do
+not see where we are going to get it," he went on.
+
+Then he happened to look over the side of the tent, which had been let
+down low, to allow the breeze to come in. What Tum Tum saw made him feel
+very good.
+
+Just outside the tent, was a lemonade stand, and on the ground by it was
+a big washtub full of pink lemonade, the kind they always sell at
+circuses. Tum Tum stretched out his trunk, and found that he could
+easily reach the pink lemonade.
+
+"I say, Maggo," called Tum Tum, in an elephant whisper. "I know how to
+get a cool drink."
+
+"How?" asked Maggo. "Now, don't play any joke on me. I could not bear
+that. I am so thirsty!"
+
+"No, this isn't a joke," said Tum Tum. "At least it isn't a joke on you.
+Come, we shall both have a drink. Put your trunk out over the side of
+the tent. On the ground outside is a big washtub, full of pink lemonade.
+We can easily suck it up through our trunks and drink it. Come on, I'll
+show you how to do it."
+
+"Oh, fine!" cried Maggo. Then she and Tum Tum, not thinking it was
+wrong, put their trunks down in the pink lemonade, and sucked it all
+out, putting it into their mouths.
+
+"Oh, but that's good!" cried Tum Tum, for the lemonade happened to be
+very sweet.
+
+"It certainly is," said Maggo. "I wish there were more."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI
+
+TUM TUM AND THE TIGER
+
+
+The two elephants sucked up all the pink lemonade from the washtub near
+the stand outside the tent. Then they felt much better, and cooler. They
+did not mind the heat so much.
+
+But, in a little while, there was a great sound of some one shouting and
+calling outside the tent. It was the voice of the man who had made the
+pink lemonade to sell to those who came to see the circus.
+
+"Oh, my lemonade!" cried the man. "My pink lemonade! It is all gone!
+Some one drank it all up, or else it leaked out of the tub! What shall I
+do? What shall I do?"
+
+The man ran up and down, trying to find his lemonade, but it was all
+gone.
+
+"Say, Tum Tum," said Maggo, "was that his lemonade we drank?"
+
+"I--I guess it must have been," said Tum Tum. "But I didn't know it
+belonged to anybody. I thought it was just standing there in the tub,
+and that we might as well take it as anyone else."
+
+"Well, it's too bad if we've taken the poor man's lemonade, that he was
+going to sell for money," said Maggo.
+
+"Yes, it is," agreed Tum Tum. "But we can't help it now."
+
+"Yes," spoke Maggo. "We can't do anything."
+
+Just then the man who owned the lemonade looked up, and saw the trunks
+of the two elephants sticking out over the top of the tent. The man
+guessed what had happened.
+
+"Ha! They took my lemonade!" the man cried. "They sucked it up through
+their trunks. Oh, they took my lemonade, and I'll make the circus pay
+for it!"
+
+Tum Tum's keeper heard the noise the man was making, and came running
+up.
+
+"What is the matter?" asked the circus man.
+
+"Oh, yoy! Yoy!" cried the man. "Your elephants took all my pink
+lemonade, from the washtub where I had ice in it! They sucked it up in
+their rubber-hose trunks!"
+
+"Tum Tum, did you and Maggo do that?" asked the keeper.
+
+Tum Tum could not answer, of course. But the circus man looked at Tum
+Tum's long, white ivory tusks, and on one of them were some splashes of
+pink lemonade.
+
+"Yes, Tum Tum, you did it," said the man. "Well, I won't punish you,
+for you did not know any better, I suppose."
+
+"But what about my lemonade?" asked the peddler. "Don't I get paid for
+it?"
+
+"Yes, I guess the circus will have to pay you," spoke the keeper. "After
+all, I am glad Tum Tum had it, for he has been a good elephant, and so
+has Maggo. I am glad they had it!"
+
+The other elephants wished they had had some also, but there was not
+enough to go around. The keeper paid the man for the lemonade the
+elephants had taken, and the man made another washtub full. But this he
+took care to place far enough away from the tent, so the elephants could
+not reach over and suck it up in their trunks.
+
+"Well, we made a lot of trouble, even though we did not mean to," said
+Tum Tum to Maggo that evening, when they were cooling off after the
+show. "But that lemonade tasted good, didn't it?"
+
+"It certainly did," said Maggo with a sigh that almost shook the tent.
+
+That night Tum Tum, and all the elephants, had to work very hard,
+pushing the heavy animal cages down the road to where they were loaded
+on the railroad cars to go to a distant city. As Tum Tum was pushing the
+cage of Sharp Tooth, the big tiger, he heard that striped animal
+talking with Roarer, the lion.
+
+"Can you hear me, Roarer?" asked Sharp Tooth, as her cage was pushed
+alongside that of the King of Beasts.
+
+"Yes, I can hear you, Sharp Tooth," said Roarer. "What is it you want to
+say?"
+
+At this Tum Tum lifted wide his ears away from his sides, so he could
+hear better.
+
+"I think something is going to happen," mused Tum Tum.
+
+Then Tum Tum made up his mind that he would listen and find out what it
+was. He knew the tiger and lion were dangerous animals. They had never
+become tame, and were always trying to find a way to escape, or get
+loose from their cages.
+
+"And if that's what they're trying this time, I'll stop them if I can,"
+thought Tum Tum.
+
+So, while he was pushing first the tiger, and then the lion cage along,
+he listened, though he pretended not to hear anything.
+
+"What is it you want to tell me, Sharp Tooth?" asked Roarer.
+
+"Listen carefully," answered the tiger. "Can you hear me?"
+
+"Yes, yes," growled the lion again. "What is it? Be quick!"
+
+"I know a way to get out of our cages," said the tiger. "If I tell you,
+will you come with me? Then we can run off to the woods, and live there
+until we can find our way back to the jungle. Will you come with me,
+Roarer?"
+
+"Yes," said the lion, "I will. Tell me how to get out of my cage and
+back to the jungle."
+
+The lion and tiger did not know that the jungle, where they had lived,
+was many miles away, across the big ocean.
+
+"This is how we can get out," said Sharp Tooth. "You know when the man
+cleans our cages each night, he leaves the door unlocked so the feeding
+man can follow and put meat in easily."
+
+"Does he do that?" asked the lion. "I never noticed."
+
+"Yes, he always does that," said the tiger. "For a little while each
+evening, just before we are fed, the doors of our cages are not locked.
+We can easily push them open, before the meat man comes to feed us and
+closes them. We can get out then."
+
+"But if we go before we get our meat, we shall be hungry," roared the
+lion.
+
+"What of it, silly?" cried Sharp Tooth. "Is it not better to get away,
+and be hungry for a little while, than to stay here shut up in a cage
+all your life?"
+
+"Well, I suppose it is," said the lion with a big sigh. "Then we are to
+come out of our cages to-night?"
+
+"Yes, soon after the man has finished cleaning them, and has left the
+door unlocked. He does not know that I know about the door. I suppose he
+imagines I think it is as tightly shut as ever. But it isn't!"
+
+"Good!" cried the lion. "Then we'll run away! But when?"
+
+"To-night," hissed the tiger. "Be quiet now, some one may hear us."
+
+"Ha! Some one has already heard you," thought Tum Tum. "So you are going
+to get away to-night, are you? Well, not if I know it! I'll stop you all
+right! It would never do to have you loose in the woods; all the people
+would be scared. Let me see, how can I stop you?"
+
+Tum Tum wished he could speak man-talk, so he could tell the keepers
+what the lion and tiger were going to do. But Tum Tum could speak only
+animal language.
+
+"But I can stay near the tiger's cage, and when he does get out, I can
+grab him in my trunk, before he has time to scratch me, and push him
+back in his cage again," thought Tum Tum. "By that time the keepers will
+come, and shut the cage doors. Yes, I'll do that with Sharp Tooth; but
+what about Roarer? I need help there. I'll get Maggo."
+
+So Tum Tum told Maggo, about the lion and tiger going to escape from the
+circus.
+
+"And if you'll stand in front of the lion's cage, he won't dare run very
+far," said Tum Tum to Maggo. "If you'll look after the lion, I'll look
+after the tiger."
+
+"All right," said Maggo, "I shall. It would not be right for those
+fierce animals to get away."
+
+Toward evening, when the show was over for the afternoon, Maggo and Tum
+Tum were allowed to roam about the animal tent a little, the chains
+being taken off their feet.
+
+"Now's our time, Maggo," whispered Tum Tum. "You go over by the lion's
+cage, and I'll stay by the tiger's."
+
+"All right, I will," said Maggo.
+
+Over she went to stand in front of the lion's cage. The cleaning man had
+been around, and the doors of the cages were open.
+
+Then, before Tum Tum could get to the tiger's cage, that big, striped
+beast gave one blow with his paw on the unlocked door, pushing it open.
+He sprang out, crying:
+
+"Come on, Roarer! Come on with me. I'm out! Jump out through the door
+and we'll go to the jungle!"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII
+
+TUM TUM'S BRAVE DEED
+
+
+Tum Tum tried to get in front of Sharp Tooth and stop the tiger from
+getting out of his cage, but the big elephant was not quick enough.
+Besides, the tiger moved so swiftly, that hardly any one could have
+stopped him.
+
+"Come back here! Come back!" cried Tum Tum, when he saw Sharp Tooth
+running out of the tent.
+
+"Indeed I will not! I'm off to the jungle!" snarled the striped beast.
+"Come on, Roarer!" she called.
+
+But Roarer could not, for Maggo, the big elephant, had placed herself in
+front of the door of his cage, and was leaning against it. And Maggo was
+so big and heavy that Roarer could not push open the iron-barred door.
+
+"Get out of my way!" cried the lion to the elephant.
+
+"No, no! I will not!" answered brave Maggo.
+
+Then the lion put his paws through the bars of the cage and scratched
+Maggo, but the lady elephant did not mind that. She made a loud noise
+through her trunk, and this call brought the keepers on the run. One of
+them saw what the matter was.
+
+"Quick!" cried this keeper. "The lion's cage door is not fastened. He is
+trying to get out, but the elephant is holding him in. Quick! Fasten
+shut the door!"
+
+Then the circus men, very quickly, made the door tightly shut, and that
+was the end of Roarer's chances for getting out. Oh, but that lion was
+angry!
+
+He sprang about the cage, roaring loudly, but he could not get out to go
+and join Sharp Tooth, the tiger.
+
+"Some of you put some salve on the elephant's scratches," said the head
+circus man, "while I look to see if any other animals have gotten
+loose."
+
+Then he saw the open door of the tiger's cage, and he cried:
+
+"Sharp Tooth is loose! We must go and find that tiger!"
+
+Then some one else called:
+
+"And Tum Tum is gone also!"
+
+"What, Tum Tum gone!" cried the elephant trainer. "That's so," he said,
+as he saw that the place where Tum Tum used to stand was empty.
+
+"I wonder where Tum Tum can be?" said the keeper. Maggo wished she
+could tell how Tum Tum had tried to stop the tiger from running away,
+but how the big elephant had not been in time. However, the head keeper
+must have guessed it.
+
+"I don't believe Tum Tum ran away," he said. "He must have gone out
+after the tiger. Come on, we must find them both."
+
+As it happened, the circus performance was over, so there were no boys
+or girls, or men and women, to be frightened by hearing that the tiger
+was loose. Sharp Tooth was so excited at getting out of the cage, that
+she did not try to bite anybody. She slipped out of the tent, and ran
+toward some woods near the circus lot.
+
+But Tum Tum was right after her. The tiger could go along very fast, but
+the elephant could travel almost as quickly, and he kept right behind
+the striped beast.
+
+"Ha! Go on back! Stop following me!" snarled Sharp Tooth.
+
+"No, I'll not," answered the brave elephant. "I want you to come back to
+the circus."
+
+"I'll never come!" snapped the tiger.
+
+"Oh, yes, you will," the elephant said.
+
+The tiger kept on, and Tum Tum followed. Finally the tiger ran up a tree
+and crouched out on a big limb.
+
+"Ha! Now you can't follow me!" she said to the elephant. "You can't
+climb up this tree!"
+
+"No, but I can stay here until you come down," said Tum Tum, "and that's
+what I'll do."
+
+"Bah!" snarled the tiger. "Go away and let me alone!"
+
+But Tum Tum would not. He stayed under the tree where the tiger was, for
+he knew that soon the circus men would come to hunt for Sharp Tooth, to
+put her back in her cage.
+
+And, surely enough, that is just what happened. The head keeper could
+easily see which way the tiger and elephant had gone, for, though Sharp
+Tooth did not make much of a track, Tum Tum did. An elephant cannot
+crash and push his way through the bushes and trees without making a
+broad path. And this path the circus men followed. Soon they came to the
+tree in which Sharp Tooth was crouching.
+
+"Here she is!" cried one. "Bring up the cage!"
+
+The tiger's empty cage was wheeled under the tree, and the door was
+open. Inside was put a nice piece of meat, such as the tiger loved, and
+she was very hungry now.
+
+"You had better go down in your cage and behave yourself," said Tum Tum.
+
+"No, I will not!" snarled the tiger. But when the circus men snapped
+their whips, and fired off guns, and brought blazing torches,
+Sharp Tooth was afraid. Besides, she was very hungry, and as the lion
+had not run away with her, she was afraid she could never get to the
+jungle alone.
+
+[Illustration: He stayed under the tree where the tiger was, for he knew
+that soon the circus men would come to hunt for Sharp Tooth. Page 120]
+
+"I guess I had better go down in my cage," said the tiger. "But," she
+added to Tum Tum, "if ever I get a chance to scratch you, I will."
+
+Into the cage she jumped, and the circus men slammed the door shut. The
+tiger was caught again.
+
+"Good old boy, Tum Tum!" called the elephant's keeper to him, as they
+were going back to the animal tent. "You saved the tiger from getting
+away, and that was a good thing, for Sharp Tooth might have bitten
+someone. You are a very good elephant!"
+
+This made Tum Tum feel quite happy, more happy even than did the nice
+big lumps of sugar, and loaves of bread, he was given for his supper as
+a reward.
+
+For you know animals like to be spoken kindly to, as well we do, boys
+and girls. You just try it with your dog. Speak harshly to him, or scold
+him, and see how he cringes down, and tucks his tail between his legs.
+He knows when you are not kind to him.
+
+And then try speaking nicely. Tell him what a good dog he is, and how
+much you like him, and see what a change there is.
+
+He will jump up, and wag his tail, and bark, he is so glad because you
+are speaking kindly to him. And, if you let him, he will try to kiss you
+with his red tongue. Oh, yes, indeed, animals know a great deal more
+than most persons think they do.
+
+So that was how Sharp Tooth got out of her cage, and how Tum Tum helped
+to catch her again. After that the animals' cages were never left open,
+even for a second.
+
+"Did you get very scratched?" asked Tum Tum of Maggo, when everything
+was once more quiet in the animal tent.
+
+"No, not much," answered the lady elephant.
+
+"I'm sorry I was not quick enough for the tiger," said Tum Tum. "Never
+mind, it is all over now."
+
+Then the two elephant friends stood side by side in the tent and ate hay
+and talked to each other in elephant language.
+
+And now my story of Tum Tum is drawing to a close. I shall tell you one
+more thing that happened to him, and then I am finished.
+
+One day the circus was showing near a large city, and great crowds of
+people came out to see it. There were boys and girls--more than Tum Tum
+had ever seen before. The big tent was full.
+
+Tum Tum did all his tricks as best he could. He stood on his head, and
+on his hind legs. He sat up at the table, and made believe eat a meal.
+In this trick Mappo, the merry monkey, had a part, for he sat up with
+Tum Tum, and they both ate.
+
+When the circus was almost over, and Tum Tum had played soldier, and
+marched out of the ring carrying Mappo on his back, while Mappo waved a
+flag, the little monkey, who could see out of the top of the tent said:
+
+"Tum Tum, we are going to have a big thunder shower. I can see the
+lightning and the black clouds."
+
+"Well, it will not hurt us," said Tum Tum. "We often used to have
+thunder storms in the jungle, and here we are under a tent."
+
+Then, suddenly the storm came. It grew very black, and the thunder and
+lightning frightened the big crowds in the circus tent. It rained very
+hard, too, so that some of the tent ropes were made loose and slipped.
+
+"Run out, quick!" suddenly called a man. "The tent is going to fall on
+us! Run, everybody!"
+
+"No! Sit still! Keep your seats!" the circus men cried, but the crowd
+was frightened and ran.
+
+Just then, one of the big poles of the tent began to fall.
+
+"That pole must not fall!" cried Tum Tum's keeper. "But how can I hold
+it up? I am not strong enough."
+
+Then he looked at Tum Tum, the big elephant.
+
+"Ha! Tum Tum will hold up the pole, until all the people get out of the
+tent!" cried the circus man. "Here, Tum Tum," he called. "Hold up this
+pole."
+
+Tum Tum knew what was wanted of him. He pushed his strong head against
+the pole, and it did not fall over. Tum Tum held it up, and the tent did
+not come down.
+
+"Tum Tum, you are a fine elephant!" cried his master. "I love you!"
+
+The rain was soon over, and that night, after the evening performance,
+the circus went on to another town.
+
+That brings me to the end of Tum Tum's adventures. But I have some
+stories about other animals, and in the next book I'll tell you about
+"Don, a Runaway Dog; His Many Adventures."
+
+As for Tum Tum, he lived in the circus for many, many years, growing
+older and stronger and wiser every day, and everybody thought he was the
+jolliest elephant in all the world.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
+
+     STORIES FOR CHILDREN
+(From four to nine years old)
+
+ THE KNEETIME ANIMAL STORIES
+
+       BY RICHARD BARNUM
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+In all nursery literature animals have played a conspicuous part; and
+the reason is obvious for nothing entertains a child more than the
+antics of an animal. These stories abound in amusing incidents such as
+children adore and the characters are so full of life, so appealing to a
+child's imagination, that none will be satisfied until they have met all
+of their favorites--Squinty, Slicko, Mappo, Tum Tum, etc.
+
+ 1 SQUINTY, THE COMICAL PIG.
+ 2 SLICKO, THE JUMPING SQUIRREL.
+ 3 MAPPO, THE MERRY MONKEY.
+ 4 TUM TUM, THE JOLLY ELEPHANT.
+ 5 DON, A RUNAWAY DOG.
+ 6 DIDO, THE DANCING BEAR.
+ 7 BLACKIE, A LOST CAT.
+ 8 FLOP EAR, THE FUNNY RABBIT.
+ 9 TINKLE, THE TRICK PONY.
+10 LIGHTFOOT, THE LEAPING GOAT.
+11 CHUNKY, THE HAPPY HIPPO.
+12 SHARP EYES, THE SILVER FOX.
+
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