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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: ISO-8859-1 + +*** 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 + + + + + + +</pre> + +<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 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 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 & HOPKINS</h4> +<h5>PUBLISHERS</h5> +<hr /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 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 & 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 & 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 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%;"> </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 5]</a></span></p> + +<hr /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 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 /> + 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"> </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 /> + 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 /> + 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 /> + 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 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 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 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 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 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 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—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—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 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—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 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 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 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—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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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—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 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 26]</a></span><br /></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 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—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 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—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—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 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—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 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 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 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—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 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—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 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—you who are elephants +like ourselves—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—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 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—I +and my tame brothers—or will you be quiet—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—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 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 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 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 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 40]</a></span><br /></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 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 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 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 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 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—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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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—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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 62]</a></span><br /></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 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 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 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 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—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—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 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 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 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 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 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 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—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 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 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 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 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 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 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—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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 86]</a></span><br /></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 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 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 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—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 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 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—shells and all—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 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 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 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—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 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 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 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 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—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 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 100]</a></span><br /></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 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—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 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 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—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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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—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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 122]</a></span><br /></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 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 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—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 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 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 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—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 /> + +<p class="center"><i>Cloth, Large 12mo., Illustrated, Per vol. 50 cents</i></p> + +<p class="center">For sale at all bookstores or sent (postage paid) on receipt of price by<br /> +the publishers.</p> + +<p class="center">BARSE & HOPKINS</p> + +<p class="center">Publishers 28 West 23rd Street New York</p> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant, by Richard Barnum + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TUM TUM, THE JOLLY ELEPHANT *** + +***** This file should be named 21599-h.htm or 21599-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/5/9/21599/ + +Produced by Mark C. 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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 + Sharp Tooth 120 + + + + +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. + +_Cloth, Large 12mo., Illustrated, Per vol. 50 cents_ + +For sale at all bookstores or sent (postage paid) on receipt of price by +the publishers. + + +BARSE & HOPKINS +Publishers 28 West 23rd Street New York + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant, by Richard Barnum + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TUM TUM, THE JOLLY ELEPHANT *** + +***** This file should be named 21599.txt or 21599.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/1/5/9/21599/ + +Produced by Mark C. 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