he 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