ns slipped out of their hands and floated off through the air.

"Oh, there goes my balloon!" cried the little girl.

"And there goes mine, too!" cried the little boy. "Oh, papa!"

"Never mind, I'll get you some others," said the man.

"But I'd rather have that one," the little boy said, half crying.

"I would, too," added his sister.

Just then the wind blew the two balloons into the top of a tall tree. It
was a tall, slender tree, too little for any one to climb up, or put a
ladder against.

"Oh, now we can never get our balloons!" sobbed the little girl, as the
toys bobbed about in the wind, the strings fast to a tree branch. Then
Tum Tum made up his mind, just as he had done at the peanut fire.

"I'll get those balloons back for the children," thought the big, kind,
jolly elephant.

CHAPTER X

TUM TUM AND THE LEMONADE

The little boy and girl, who had ridden on the back of Tum Tum, the
jolly elephant, stretched up their hands toward the balloons that had
caught in the tree. They even got up again into the little house, and,
standing up, tried to reach their floating toys.

"Sit down! Sit down!" called their father.

"Yes, you might fall," said Tum Tum's trainer, or keeper, who was also
riding in the little house on the elephant's back.

"But we want our balloons!" cried the little boy.

"Yes, our nice toy balloons!" said the little girl, and there were tears
in her eyes. Tum Tum felt sorry for her. He did not like to see little
girls cry.

"I must get those balloons back for them," Tum Tum said to himself, over
and over again.

"I'll get you other balloons," said the children's papa again, trying to
make them feel happier. But the boy and girl wanted the same balloons
they had had first.

"Now if Mappo were only here," thought Tum Tum, "he could easily climb
up that tree, even if it is a slender one, and will easily bend. For
Mappo is not very heavy, and he could go away up to the top of the tree.

"But no one else can, and none of the monkeys but Mappo is smart enough
to do it. So I'll have to get the balloons myself."

And how do you think Tum Tum did it? Of course he could not climb a
tree--no elephant could, even if it were a big tree. But Tum Tum was
very strong, and, just as he had often done in the jungle, he wrapped
his long, rubbery hose-like nose, or trunk, around the tree.

"Here, Tum Tum, what are you doing?" called his keeper.

"Umph! Umph! Wumph!" Tum Tum answered. Tha