er'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 ti