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"El'funts' tails are small like a rope," Jerry remarked. Danny laughed derisively. "Much you know about it! I guess a el'funt's about the biggest animal in the world and it wouldn't have a little ole tail like a rope." "They are little, like a rope," Jerry insisted. "How do you know they are?" asked Danny. "Just tell me how you know anything about it."
One day she came across the old green wrapper elephant skin in the woodshed. "Why don't you children play circus any more?" she asked Danny. "El'funts don't look like that," he asserted, pointing disdainfully at the discarded costume. "Their tails are small like a rope." "Are they now?" she asked. "And how might you be after knowing that?"
"I don't know how I know," said Jerry, "but I know el'funts have little tails like a rope." "Have you ever been to a circus?" asked Chris. "Not that I remember." "Have you ever seen a el'funt?" pursued Danny. "N-n-no, but it kind of seems as if I almost had." "I guess you'd know if you had seen a el'funt, wouldn't you?" "Y-y-yes," responded Jerry doubtfully.
When the fourth tub was about full he sat down on the pump platform while Sam filled their pail with water. "El'funts must drink a nawful lot of water," he said. "Gettin' tired, ain't you?" asked Sam. "No, I could carry water all day, I guess. It makes my back ache some because I ain't used to it."
"Let's go home. I guess we've seen about all there is to see." Jerry protested. "Let's wait a while longer an' mebbe they'll bring the el'funts out." "Mebbe they will," said Chris and seemed straightway to forget all about his hunger.
Mullarkey and Nora had finished washing the breakfast dishes. "Look, mother!" cried Chris, panting for breath after almost every word, "we've got tickets for the circus for helpin' carry water for the el'funts!" "Oh, how nice!" said Mrs. Mullarkey. "They will be tickets to paradise to you. Now you'll get to see the circus, after all. But you must be about starved."
It didn't take Danny long to dress and get downstairs, his hair all tousled and his eyes still heavy with sleep. "Let's see your tickets," he demanded. Chris let him see his, but kept a possessive hold of one end. There it was: BURROWS AND FAIRCHILD'S "That's a ticket, all right," Danny remarked. "Was that all you had to do to get it carry water for the el'funts?"
Jerry saw the green elephant's front feet double up and he jumped down from the barrel, a little bit scared. "He is, too," said Darn, "and so are you. Jerry Elbow there's got more sense than both of you put together, even if he ain't got no father and mother." "I haven't either," said Jerry. "I jest somehow knew one thing Danny didn't about el'funts' tails. Danny knows lots more'n I do."
"Then if you ain't ever been to a circus or seen a el'funt, I guess you don't know what you are talking about." "El'funts' tails are little, like a rope," Jerry insisted. "Like a cow's tail?" asked Celia Jane. Jerry nodded assent. "Only they haven't so much hair on the end," he added.
He was gladder than ever that he had bought the cough medicine for Kathleen with the black half-dollar. He looked up at Mr. Burrows, and it was such a look as a friendless dog might give to a man who had just petted it and given it something to eat. "Thank you, mister, for lettin' me carry water for the el'funts," said Jerry. "That's all right," replied the man. "Here, there's a dime for peanuts.
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