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"I get all I want to eat, and I don't have to hunt for it. I am to go in a circus and menagerie, I hear. I don't quite know what that is, do you?" "Not exactly," answered Mappo, scratching his nose. "Well, maybe we'll be in it together," went on Tum Tum. "But how did you happen to get caught, and brought away from the jungle, little monkey?"
Throwing another glance at the robin still singing on the treetop overhead, the boy took from his pocket a mouth-organ, threw back his head, squared his elbows out from his sides to give him the lung room he needed, and in obedience to a sharp word of command after a preliminary tum, tum, tum, struck up the ancient triumph hymn in memory of that hero of the underground railroad by which so many slaves of the South in bygone days made their escape "up No'th" to Canada and to freedom.
He thinks he can push that wagon out of the mud, when we two could not pull it," said one elephant to the other. "Yes, he is very proud," spoke the other. Tum Tum heard them. "No, I am not proud," said Tum Tum, "and I am not sure that I can push the wagon out of the mud, but I am going to try." His keeper led him up in back of the hippopotamus wagon.
VITAE CONIUNCTIONEM: 'a common enjoyment of life'. TUM ... TUM: here purely temporal, 'sometimes ... sometimes'; often however = 'both ... and'; cf. 7. COMPOTATIONEM etc.: cf. Epist. ad Fam. 9, 24, 3. Compotatio = συμποσιον; concenatio = συνδειπνον. IN EO GENERE: see n. on 4. ID: i.e. eating and drinking.
Of course the hunter men, who had taken Tum Tum and the others prisoners, did not understand this talk, but they could see that Tum Tum was very strong, and might break loose. "Better put a couple more chains on that fellow," said one of the hunters to another. "I guess so," agreed the second hunter. "That is the finest and biggest elephant we have caught in this herd."
Sect. 3. That which is said of the ceremonies which crept into the ancient church, agreeth well to them. Ista ceremoniarum accumulatio, tum ipsos doctores, tum etiam ipsos auditores, a studio docendi atque discendi verbum Dei abstraxit, atque impedivit necessarias et utiles divini eloquii institutiones.
"I like that, don't you?" "Indeed I do," the elephant said. "We never got anything as nice as popcorn and peanuts in the jungle, did we?" "No," answered Tum Tum, thinking of the days in the dense jungle. Tum Tum wondered what had become of Mr. Boom and where his father and mother, and his other elephant friends, might be.
I am afraid you might hurt my master. I never saw such an animal as you, with two tails. Go away!" and Don barked louder than before, and once more tried to bite 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.
The phrase is elliptic; in full it would be 'cum maxime conficio orationes, nunc conficio', 'when I most of all compose speeches, I now compose them'; i.e. 'the time when I most of all compose is now'. The words cum maxime generally follow tum or nunc and add emphasis to those words, but are sometimes used alone to express the ideas 'then' and 'now' more emphatically than tum and nunc would. Cf.
He is always on the lookout for danger, and when he sees, hears or smells any, he gives a signal, or trumpet, through his trunk, and then all the elephants run away and hide. Tum Tum, the jolly elephant, stopped eating his dinner, for he had had enough, anyhow, and off through the jungle he crashed. He did not wait to go by the path, for he was so big and strong.
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