and the other elephants knew this.

"Run away from the fence! Run over this way!" called Mr. Boom.

The elephants ran, but soon they saw another fence in front of them--a
fence as strong as the first one. Mr. Boom and some of the strong
elephants, including Tum Tum, tried to break it down, but they could
not. If they had all gotten together, and pushed at one spot, they might
have broken it, but they pushed in different places, and the fence held
them back.

"Never mind!" called Mr. Boom. "Maybe this fence has a hole in it. We'll
run along it and find out."

"Why can't we turn around and go back?" asked Gumble-umble of Tum Tum,
behind whom he was now running.

"Because the hunters are behind us," said Tum Tum. "If we turned back,
they would surely catch us. The only thing to do is to run on."

Tum Tum was beginning to be a smart elephant, you see. He knew many
things about danger. But, had he only known it, there was something he
did not know--and this was that he and the others were, even then,
running right into a trap.

On and on rushed the elephants. The two lines of fences that had been
far apart, were now so close together that they could both easily be
seen at once. It was like going down a long lane, in the cow pasture,
with a fence on either side.

Then Mr. Boom saw the danger.

"Go back! Go back!" called the big leader elephant. "Go back!"

But it was too late. Right in front of the elephants was a big round
place, like a baseball park, with a high fence all around it--a very
strong fence. There was a gate by which the elephants could be driven
into this park, only it was a trap, and not a park. And there was no way
out of it. The fence ran all about it, except this one hole. And through
that hole the elephants were being driven.

"Go back! Go back!" cried Tum Tum, waving his trunk at the other
elephants as Mr. Boom was doing.

But the elephants were afraid to go back because the hunters were
rushing up behind them. The hunters had driven the elephants into the
trap, and were going to keep them there.

Up rode the hunters on tame elephants. Into the trap they drove the wild
ones, Tum Tum and all the others.

"Alas! We are caught!" cried Mr. Boom. "Come, let us see if we cannot
break through this fence!"

He rushed at it with his big head, but the fence was too strong for him.

Into the midst of the wild elephants came the tame ones, with the
hunter-men on their backs. The tame elephants ta