little while all the wild elephants, Tum Tum included, were quite
tame. Then they were taken out, a few at a time, out to the forest, and
shown how to pile up the heavy logs of teakwood, which is used for
building ships, and sometimes for making tables and chairs.

The tame elephants showed the wild ones how to carry the logs on their
tusks, or in their trunks, and how to pile them up as neatly as you can
pile up your building blocks.

Tum Tum learned to do this, and also how to push heavy wagons about with
his head. He also learned much of the man-talk, so that his driver, or
_mahoot_, as he is called, could, by a few words, make Tum Tum
understand just what was wanted.

One day Tum Tum was taken away from the rest of the herd, and he did not
even have a chance to say good-by. He was led up what seemed to be a
little bridge, and Tum Tum was afraid it would fall with him. But it did
not.

Next he walked down into a dark place, and he found other elephants
there. Some of them he knew.

"Where are we, and where are we going?" he asked.

"We are in a ship, and we are being taken across the ocean to a circus,"
answered Whoo-ee, who was one of the elephants in the dark place, which
was the inside of a steamship.

"A circus! Good!" cried Tum Tum. "Now I shall know how a peanut tastes."

The ship began to move and rock. It rocked and swayed for many days, for
it was on the ocean. And then, one day, a sailor came down to see the
elephants. He brought with him a queer little animal, with thick, brown
hair. And this animal chattered in jungle talk.

"Ha! I seem to know who that is!" thought Tum Tum.

"Chatter! Chatter! Chat! Chur-r-r-r-r-r!" went the little brown-haired
animal, as he sprang from the arms of the sailor.

"Umph! Umph!" trumpeted Tum Tum.

Then the little brown monkey, for such it was, gave a jump from the arms
of the sailor, and landed up on the back of the elephant.

"Hello, Tum Tum!" cried the monkey.

"Why, it's Mappo!" exclaimed Tum Tum. "How did you get here?"

"I was caught in a net, when I was eating some cocoanut," the monkey
said. I have told you how that happened in a book called, "Mappo, the
Merry Monkey."

[Illustration: He fell down on his knees, while Mappo sailed through the
air. Page 41]

"Caught in a net, eh?" said Tum Tum. "That is too bad. I was caught
myself. But where are you going?"

"To a circus," answered Mappo.

"So am I!" cried Tum Tum. "This is fine! We'll be in th