en on their knees, when the ship tossed
from side to side, now got up. They placed their big legs far apart, so
they could stand steadily.

"We will be all right when the storm passes," said the old elephant who
had spoken to Tum Tum.

Mappo picked himself up off the pile of hay, and, just then, his friend
the sailor came to get him.

"I guess you have been here long enough, Mappo," said the sailor. "You
might get hurt down here, with all these big elephants."

Mappo was glad enough to go, not that he felt afraid of the elephants,
but he knew that one of them might, by accident, fall on him, and an
elephant is so large and heavy that, when he falls on a monkey, there is
not much left of the little chap.

"Good-by, Tum Tum!" called Mappo to his big friend. "I'll come and see
you, when the storm is over."

"All right," answered Tum Tum. "And I hope the storm will soon be over,
for I do not like it."

The ship was swinging to and fro, like a rocking chair on the front
porch when the wind blows. But finally the elephants became used to it,
and some of them could even go to sleep. But Tum Tum stayed awake.

"There might be some danger," he thought to himself, "and if there was,
I could warn the others. I am the leader, and must always be on the
watch for danger, just as Mr. Boom would be, if he were here."

But I am glad to say no more danger came to the ship. It rode safely
through the storm, and in a few days, it was gliding swiftly over the
blue sea.

"What will happen to us, when the ship stops sailing?" asked Tum Tum of
the old elephant, who seemed to know so much.

"After it gets to the other side of the ocean," said the old elephant,
"we shall be taken out--we and all the animals. Then we shall go to the
circus."

"Is the circus nice?" asked Tum Tum.

"I have been in one or two, and I like them," said the old elephant,
whose name was Hoy. "There is hard work, but there is also fun."

"Tell me about the fun," said Tum Tum. "I do not like to hear about the
hard work."

"The work goes with the fun," said Hoy, "so I will tell you about both.
The hard work comes in marching through the hard city streets, that hurt
your feet. That is when we go in the parade. I know, for I have been in
many parades. But it is fun, too, for we elephants have a little house
on our backs, and men and women ride in it. Then the bands play, and the
people laugh and shout to see us pass by. Yes, that is fun," and the old
eleph