rt a fly. I guess he is
looking for me, but, as I don't want to go back to the circus just yet,
I'll go off in the woods and hide."

"And I guess I'll go hide, too," said Squinty, for he, also, had run
away, but not from a circus. He had run away from his pen at the
farm--the farm where Don, the dog, lived.

So Mappo hurried off to climb a tall tree. As Tum Tum went along through
the bushes, he saw his little monkey friend.

"Ha! There is Mappo!" said Tum Tum to himself, and he hurried on through
the woods.

"Wait a minute, Mappo!" called Tum Tum, in animal language.

But Mappo would not wait, and Tum Tum could not tell the circus men
with him that the lost monkey was just ahead of them. Tum Tum could not
speak man talk, you know, and the circus men had not yet seen Mappo. So
the little monkey got away.

Tum Tum saw a little animal with Mappo, and the elephant said to
himself:

"Ha! That must be Squinty, the comical pig, of whom Don, the dog, told
me. I would like to meet Squinty, but I don't see how I can. He can run
through these woods faster than I can. Well, maybe I will see him some
day. And I do hope Mappo comes back to the circus. It will be lonesome
without him."

But Mappo had many adventures before he came back to the circus.

"Well, I guess it's no use hunting for him any more," said one of the
circus men. "That monkey has gotten far away. We had better go back to
the tents."

"Yes, I think we had," said the man who was riding on the back of Tum
Tum.

The elephant knew that Mappo was not so very far off, but Tum Tum had no
way of telling his keeper about it.

Back to the circus went Tum Tum, and another monkey had to do the tricks
that Mappo used to do in the performances that day.

"What happened?" asked Sharp Tooth, the tiger, of Tum Tum, as the
elephant went past the cage of the striped beast. "Where did you go a
little while ago?"

"Out looking for Mappo, the monkey," answered Tum Tum.

"Did he run away?" asked the tiger.

"Yes, I guess he was afraid you would bite him."

"And so I would, if I could get him," snarled the tiger. "He is to blame
for me being shut up in this cage."

Tum Tum said nothing, for he did not want to get in a quarrel with the
tiger.

Day after day went past in the circus, and still Mappo did not come
back. Sometimes Tum Tum was lonesome for his little monkey friend, but
there was so much to do, that no one in a circus could be lonesome for
very long at a