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, maki