his way along. A snake can crawl on
the ground under the vines, you know.

Well, Tum Tum lived in this jungle, and with him lived his father and
mother. His father was a great big elephant, named Tusky, and he was
called this because he had two big, long, white teeth, called tusks,
sticking out on either side of his long trunk, which was like a fat
rubber hose.

Tum Tum's mother was named Mrs. Tusky, but she did not have any long
teeth like her husband. Perhaps she had had some once, and had lost
them, breaking down a big tree, or something like that.

Tum Tum had no brothers or sisters, but there were other little boy and
girl elephants in the herd, or family of elephants, where he lived, and,
altogether, he had a good time in the jungle, Tum Tum did.

One day Tum Tum, who had been eating his dinner of leaves, with his
father and mother, heard a loud trumpeting in the woods back of where he
was standing. Trumpeting is the noise an elephant makes when he blows
through his long trunk, or nose. It is his way of speaking to another
elephant.

"Who's that calling?" asked Mrs. Tusky, of her husband.

"Oh, it sounds like some of the little boy elephants," said the old papa
elephant, as he pulled up a tree by the roots, so he could the more
easily take a bite from the tender top leaves.

"I hope it doesn't mean any danger for us," said Mrs. Tusky, looking at
Tum Tum, who was busy finishing his dinner.

Elephants, you know, no matter if they are big, are just as much afraid
of danger as are other wild animals. Of course they are not so much
afraid of the other beasts in the jungles, for the elephant can fight
almost anything, even a lion or a tiger.

But an elephant is afraid of the black men, or natives, who live in the
jungle, and an elephant is also afraid of the white hunters, who come
into the big forest from time to time.

"I hope no hunters are about, to make one of our elephant friends
trumpet that way," said Mrs. Tusky, speaking in a way elephants have.

"Oh, no, don't be afraid," said her husband, eating away at his tree
leaves. "There is no danger." But, as he said this, he put up his long
trunk-nose, and carefully sniffed the air. That is the way animals have
of telling if danger is near. They do it by smelling as well as by
listening and seeing. Only one cannot see very far in the jungle, as the
trees are so thick.

Mr. Tusky also lifted up his big ears, about as large as ten palm-leaf
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