lked to the wild ones.

"Be quiet!" said the tame elephants. "You will not be hurt! See us! We
were once like you, but we were caught and we like it. Be quiet!"

Some of the elephants quieted down, but others rushed about, trying to
break through the fence. Tum Tum was one of these. Then, all at once two
tame elephants, with men on their backs, rushed at Tum Tum. Chains and
ropes were thrown over his back, and around his legs. The chains and
ropes were pulled tight.

Tum Tum was caught in the trap.

CHAPTER III

TUM TUM AND MAPPO

Tum Tum was not now such a jolly elephant as he had been the day he went
in swimming, or as happy as when he pulled up the tree, fell over
backward, and laughed at his own joke. No, indeed! Tum Tum was feeling
very unhappy now.

"Oh, mamma!" Tum Tum cried. "Oh, papa! What has happened?"

Mr. and Mrs. Tusky were not able to answer Tum Tum. They, too, as well
as nearly all the other elephants, had been caught in the trap. Some of
them, like Tum Tum, were held fast with chains and ropes, and others
were trying to batter down the fence of the trap with their heads. But
they felt that they could not do it, as the fence was too strong.

"Let me go! Let me loose!" cried Tum Tum in his elephant language.

Of course the hunter men, who had taken Tum Tum and the others
prisoners, did not understand this talk, but they could see that Tum
Tum was very strong, and might break loose.

"Better put a couple more chains on that fellow," said one of the
hunters to another.

"I guess so," agreed the second hunter. "That is the finest and biggest
elephant we have caught in this herd."

At first Tum Tum thought they must be speaking of Mr. Boom, who surely
was the largest and strongest elephant in the jungle. But, when Tum Tum
looked around, Mr. Boom was not to be seen. He had gotten away. He had
turned, and run out of the trap, and he was so big and strong that even
the tame elephants, with the hunters on their backs, could not stop him.
Away he rushed into the jungle. But he was very sad, for he alone, of
all the herd, had escaped.

"I wonder of whom they can be speaking, so big and strong," thought Tum
Tum. He saw two tame elephants, with hunters on their backs, and
carrying chains, coming toward him.

"Why--why, they must mean me!" said Tum Tum to himself. He stopped
trying to break down the fence, which the hunters had built as a trap,
and waited.

"Look out for him," said one of