ger. Come on, we must find them both."

As it happened, the circus performance was over, so there were no boys
or girls, or men and women, to be frightened by hearing that the tiger
was loose. Sharp Tooth was so excited at getting out of the cage, that
she did not try to bite anybody. She slipped out of the tent, and ran
toward some woods near the circus lot.

But Tum Tum was right after her. The tiger could go along very fast, but
the elephant could travel almost as quickly, and he kept right behind
the striped beast.

"Ha! Go on back! Stop following me!" snarled Sharp Tooth.

"No, I'll not," answered the brave elephant. "I want you to come back to
the circus."

"I'll never come!" snapped the tiger.

"Oh, yes, you will," the elephant said.

The tiger kept on, and Tum Tum followed. Finally the tiger ran up a tree
and crouched out on a big limb.

"Ha! Now you can't follow me!" she said to the elephant. "You can't
climb up this tree!"

"No, but I can stay here until you come down," said Tum Tum, "and that's
what I'll do."

"Bah!" snarled the tiger. "Go away and let me alone!"

But Tum Tum would not. He stayed under the tree where the tiger was, for
he knew that soon the circus men would come to hunt for Sharp Tooth, to
put her back in her cage.

And, surely enough, that is just what happened. The head keeper could
easily see which way the tiger and elephant had gone, for, though Sharp
Tooth did not make much of a track, Tum Tum did. An elephant cannot
crash and push his way through the bushes and trees without making a
broad path. And this path the circus men followed. Soon they came to the
tree in which Sharp Tooth was crouching.

"Here she is!" cried one. "Bring up the cage!"

The tiger's empty cage was wheeled under the tree, and the door was
open. Inside was put a nice piece of meat, such as the tiger loved, and
she was very hungry now.

"You had better go down in your cage and behave yourself," said Tum Tum.

"No, I will not!" snarled the tiger. But when the circus men snapped
their whips, and fired off guns, and brought blazing torches,
Sharp Tooth was afraid. Besides, she was very hungry, and as the lion
had not run away with her, she was afraid she could never get to the
jungle alone.

[Illustration: He stayed under the tree where the tiger was, for he knew
that soon the circus men would come to hunt for Sharp Tooth. Page 120]

"I guess I had better go down in my cage," said the tiger. "But,