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"That was it Jumbo!" cried Humpo. "He was a very big elephant." "Yes, I guess he was," said Umboo. "I have heard of him, but I never saw him. He was an African elephant, and they are all large. Poor Jumbo!" "Why do you say that?" asked Chako the monkey. "Poor Jumbo?" "Because he is dead," said Umboo.
But after a while I did not mind being caught, for I was taken care of by Princess Toto." "Let us hear how Umboo got out of the trap," said Chako, the monkey. "How do you know he got out?" asked Humpo, the camel. "Isn't he here with us now?" asked Chako, who was a very smart monkey. "And if he hadn't got out of the trap he wouldn't be here. Anybody knows that!"
"Oh, now we can't hear any more of the story," said Chako, the big monkey, to Gink the little, long-tailed chap. "Why can't we?" Gink wanted to know. "Because the circus is going to move on. Our cage will be put on the steam cars, and away we will go, and Umboo, and the rest of the elephants, will be put in big box-cars."
"That is all, yes. I stayed with that circus for some time, and then was sold again, and as you all know, brought here. And I like it here very much, because you are all so kind to me. And I enjoyed listening to the story you told, Woo-Uff, and to Snarlie's story also." "Well, we liked yours," said Chako, the monkey, as he hung by his tail and ate a peanut.
"Let Umboo alone! He'll tell us what happened." "Oh, I beg your pardon," said Chako. "I was so anxious that I could hardly wait to hear. We monkeys are very much afraid of snakes, you know." "So I have heard," said Woo-Uff. "Please go on, Umboo." So Umboo told the rest of his story. In the jungle he stood, with one foot raised, ready to crush the big snake.
"Won't we ever see him again, or hear more of his story?" asked Gink, who had not been with the circus very long, and so did not know much about it. "Oh, yes, of course we'll hear more later on," answered Chako, "but not until tomorrow. Now the circus is going to move." And that is just what happened. The men closed the sides of the cages, shutting the animals up in them.
You would nip me, would you?" cried the elephant, as he raised his big foot to crush the snake before it had a chance to bite and poison him. "Did the snake bite you?" asked Chako, the funny monkey chap, who was hanging by his tail, upside down, listening to the story told by Umboo. "Did the snake bite you?" "Oh, can't you keep quiet?" asked Woo-Uff, the lion, in his deep, rumbly voice.
"Oh, my! But it's hot! It is just too hot for anything!" cried Chako, one of the monkeys in the circus cage. "It is hotter under this tent than ever it was in the jungle! Whew!" and he hung by his tail and swung to and fro from a wooden bar.
"Here comes some more!" cried Umboo, and again he dipped his trunk in the tub of water, sucked up some in the two hollow places, and again squirted it over the monkeys' cage. "Oh, that's good! That's fine!" cried Chako. "That was like being in a jungle rain. I'm cooler now. Squirt some more, Umboo!" "No, hold on, if you please!" rumbled another elephant.
"If Umboo can't squirt any more water on us, maybe he can do something else to help us forget that it is so hot," said Gink, a funny little monkey, who had a very long tail. "What can he do, except squirt water on us?" asked Chako. "And I wish he'd do that again. It's the only thing to make us cooler." "No, I wasn't thinking of that, though I do like a little water," spoke Gink.
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