n, all of a sudden, Mr. Boom gave the signal with his trunk.

"Danger! Danger!" he cried, in his deep, booming voice, that was like
distant thunder.

"Oh, we've got to run again!" cried Mr. Tusky, who was the father of Tum
Tum.

It is a good thing elephants do not live in houses, and also good that
they have nothing to move with them, when they go from place to place,
or they would have trouble, because they have to run away from danger so
often.

Once again they were on the march, with Mr. Boom in the lead. Now Tum
Tum was so big and strong, that he was allowed to march at the head of
the herd with Mr. Boom.

"Oh, but I am afraid to have him there," said Mrs. Tusky to her husband.

"Nonsense!" exclaimed the papa elephant. "He must learn to take his
place. Some day he will be the leader of the herd, and will warn the
others of danger."

Through the forest jungle rushed the elephants, trampling down the trees
and bushes. Behind them could be heard the shouts of the hunters, and
the firing of guns. There was also the noise of big wooden and tin drums
being beaten, and horns being blown. There was also the trumpeting of
other elephants--tame elephants. For hunters use tame elephants to help
them catch the wild ones.

[Illustration: Through the forest jungle rushed the elephants, trampling
down the trees and bushes. Page 24]

"Wait! don't run away! You will not be hurt!" called the tame elephants
to Tum Tum, and the other wild ones.

But the wild elephants did not want to be caught. They did not know they
would be kindly treated by their masters. All the wild elephants wanted
to do was to get away. So with Tum Tum and Mr. Boom at their head, away
they rushed through the jungle.

All at once the rushing herd of wild elephants came to a fence in the
jungle. It was a strong fence, made of big bamboo trees stuck in the
ground. It was such a strong fence that even Mr. Boom, try as he did,
could not break it down. When he found that after one or two blows from
his head would not break the fence, he called out to the other
elephants:

"Never mind the fence! We can't break through it, so we'll run along
beside it. Maybe there'll be a hole in it somewhere."

So the elephants rushed through the jungle, alongside of the fence, just
as you might do, until you came to a gate, or hole. That was what Mr.
Boom was looking for--a hole in the fence.

But he did not see any. In fact, this fence was a trap, and soon Mr.
Boom