e 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 t