r getting out of the big freight car,
Tum Tum picked up a piece of stick from the ground, and began tickling
another elephant in the ribs with it.

"Yoump! Umph! Woomph!" trumpeted this elephant. This was his way of
saying:

"Hi, there! What are you doing? Stop it!"

"Oh, that's only in fun!" laughed Tum Tum.

"Well, my ribs are too sore to want that kind of fun," the other
elephant said. "Now you just quit!"

But Tum Tum was so jolly that he wanted more fun, so he tickled another
elephant. This elephant, instead of speaking to Tum Tum, just reached
over with her long trunk, pulled one of Tum Tum's legs out from under
him, and down he went in a heap.

"Ha! Maybe you like that kind of fun!" cried the elephant who had made
Tum Tum fall.

"It didn't hurt me!" said Tum Tum, as he got up. But, after that, he was
careful not to play any jokes on this elephant.

It was very cold in this new land to which Tum Tum had come, for it was
winter. It was not at all like his green, hot jungle, and he was glad
when he was led, with the other elephants, into the big barn, where the
circus stayed in winter.

CHAPTER V

TUM TUM AND DON

"Well, this is certainly a funny place," thought Tum Tum, the jolly
elephant, as he looked about him. And well might he say so.

He found himself inside a large barn, which was nice and warm, and for
this Tum Tum was glad, for it felt more like the warmth of his jungle,
and Tum Tum, who had been shivering in the cold, outer air, now felt
much better.

The earthen floor of the barn was covered with sawdust, and all around
the sides of the barn were cages containing many animals. There were
lions, tigers, wolves, leopards, monkeys, snakes, and many other strange
beasts, some of which Tum Tum had seen in his jungle home, and some of
which he had never before seen.

"I suppose that is where Mappo will be put," thought Tum Tum, as he
looked at the cages full of lively little monkey chaps.

Then Tum Tum looked and saw a number of elephants, chained in a row on
another side of the circus barn, and he knew that would be his place.
Opening out of the big barn was a smaller one, and in that were many
horses and ponies.

There were many men in the circus barn, and they all seemed to be doing
something. Some were carrying pails of water to the animals, others were
feeding hay to the elephants, and meat to the lions, tigers and spotted
leopards. Tum Tum did not care for meat, but he was ve