, 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 g