the elephant's feet.

"Here, Don! Don!" called a man's voice. "Come away from that elephant!"

"Bow wow!" barked Don. "I am going to bite him!"

"Oh, are you?" asked Tum Tum. And with that he reached out with his
trunk, caught Don around the middle, and lifted him high in the air. Don
did not bark now. He howled in fear.

CHAPTER VI

TUM TUM AND THE WAGON

"Please let me down! Oh, please do!" begged Don, the dog, of Tum Tum,
the jolly elephant, as the big creature from the jungle held the dog
high up in the air.

Tum Tum did not feel so very jolly just then. He did not want to hurt
Don, but neither did the elephant like to be nipped on his hind legs,
when he was pushing a wagon.

"Oh, the elephant has our dog!" cried a boy who was with the man who had
called after Don. "Oh, papa, will he hurt him?"

"No, Tum Tum won't hurt anyone," said a circus man. "I'll get your dog
back for you, but he must be careful of elephants after this."

"He never saw one before," said the boy's father.

All this while Tum Tum was holding Don high in the air in his trunk.

"Oh, won't you let me down?" begged Don.

"I will, if you won't bark at me again, and bite me," said Tum Tum. "I
don't want to hurt you, doggie boy, but I can't have you bothering me,
when I'm doing my circus work."

[Illustration: All this while Tum Tum was holding Don high in the air in
his trunk. Page 60]

"Oh, I'll be good! I'll be good!" promised Don, and with that Tum Tum
lowered him gently to the ground, uncoiled his trunk from around Don's
middle, and the dog ran howling to his master and the boy.

"Don, what made you bite the elephant?" asked the boy.

Don only barked gently in answer. He could not speak man or boy talk,
you know, any more than an elephant could, though he understood it very
well.

"I told you the elephant wouldn't hurt your dog," said the circus man.
"Tum Tum is very gentle."

Don crept behind his master, and looked at Tum Tum. The elephant walked
down to get another wagon to push up hill, as all the circus horses were
too busy to pull it.

"Bow wow!" barked Don, but this time he was talking to Tum Tum, and not
barking angrily at him. "Are you an elephant?" asked Don, in his own
language, which the elephant understood very well.

"Yes, I am an elephant," said Tum Tum.

"And you have two tails," went on Don.

Almost anyone who sees an elephant for the first time thinks that.

"No, I have only one tail," Tum T