wound his trunk around a big tree and he gave one great, heaving pull and
up that tree came by the roots. Then, all of a sudden a voice cried:

"Oh, you're upsetting all my eggs!" and a robin, who had her nest in the
tree, fluttered around feeling very sad.

"Oh, excuse me, Mrs. Robin," said the elephant. "I would not have
disturbed you for the world had I known that your nest was in that tree.
I'll plant it right back again in the same place I pulled it up. Anyhow, I
intended to do it, as it is not a good thing to kill a tree. I'll plant it
again."

So he put the tree back in the hole, and with his big feet he stamped down
the earth around it. Then the robin's nest and eggs were safe, and she
sang a pretty song because she was thankful to the elephant.

Well, the elephant had to sleep out-of-doors again that night, because he
couldn't find a house large enough for him, but Uncle Wiggily slept in the
big dog's kennel. In the morning the rabbit said:

"It is very nice here, and I like it very much, but I must travel along, I
s'pose, and see if I can't find my fortune. Are you coming, Mr. Elephant?"

"Why, certainly. I will go along with you," said the big chap. "Perhaps
the dog will come also."

"No, thank you," said the dog. "I am going to meet a friend of mine, named
Percival, and we are going to call on Lulu and Alice and Jimmie
Wibblewobble, the duck children."

"Is that so?" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily. "Why, Percival and the
Wibblewobbles are friends of mine. Kindly give them my love and say that
I hope soon to get back home with my fortune."

So the dog said he would, and he started off to meet Percival, who used to
work in the same circus where the elephant came from. And the rabbit and
the elephant hurried off together down the road.

"Are you ever going back to the circus?" asked Uncle Wiggily of the
elephant as they went along.

"Not unless they catch me and make me go," he answered. "I like this sort
of life much better, and besides, no one gave me ice cream cones in the
circus."

Well, pretty soon the rabbit and the elephant came to a place where there
was a high mountain.

"Oh, we'll never get up that," said Uncle Wiggily.

"Yes, we will," said the elephant, "I'll make a hole through it with my
tusks, and we can walk under it instead of climbing over."

So with his long, sharp tusks he made a tunnel right through the mountain,
and, though it was a bit darkish, he and the rabbit went through i