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Updated: May 3, 2025
"All I can say is, you'd better study national history, Danny, and learn how the four-footed friends of man are made," remarked Darn. "How do you know el'funts' tails are small and round?" asked Chris. "Because I'm no dumb-head and learn things." "I ain't no dumb-head," protested Chris and at the same time Danny asserted: "Chris ain't no dumb-head."
Jerry waved his hands to them and bowed and a patter of hand-clapping ran along the audience as they passed until they reached the entrance. Chris suddenly cried, "Danny! Look at them el'funts! They're standin' on their heads! Lookee!" Jerry just had to see that and he squirmed around in Whiteface's arms. "They're funny!" he laughed. "Which one is Sult Anna?"
"I gave her my ticket to the circus which I got for carryin' water for the el'funts." "Ah!" said the clown. "She cried to get your ticket so she could see the circus herself. I see." "No! She gave my ticket to Danny," pursued Jerry, and his grief was coming back so rapidly that he felt his lips begin twisting again. "And Danny went to the circus in your place?" questioned the clown.
They knew at once that he hadn't succeeded in getting a "ticket to paradise", as Mother 'Larkey had called their circus passes, nevertheless Chris asked: "Did you get a ticket?" "No," replied Danny, sitting down dejectedly. After a while they knew he didn't intend to say any more. Jerry waited as long as he could and then asked in turn: "Didn't the el'funts want any water for dinner?"
"We can't have a circus with just a el'funt," said Celia Jane. "Of course, we can't," said Danny decisively and turned to Jerry. "What else'll we have?" "Couldn't we have more'n one el'funt?" Jerry asked hopefully. "What'd we want with more'n one el'funt?" Danny queried in scorn. "I guess one el'funt's enough for one circus. Anyway, we want something besides el'funts." "What?" asked Jerry.
"She's the one at the table," replied his mother, "ringing the bell for a waiter to bring her something to eat." "Can el'funts do that?" Jerry asked amazed. "Much more than that, Gary," she responded. "I guess el'funts know more'n some people," Danny remarked. Jerry craned his neck to see the elephants. "Are they going to jump the fence now?" he asked. Whiteface burst into a joyous laugh.
"I'll do it right now," declared the offended Mr. Nute, unpinning his badge. "Any time you've ordered me to do something sensible I've done it. But el'funts and lunatics and dynamite and some of the other jobs you've unlo'ded onto me ain't sensible, and I won't stand for 'em. You can't take me in the face and eyes of the people and rake me over."
Bowe took Chris' words up so quickly that Jerry thought his father was angry with Chris. "Wouldn't let him be the elephant!" he exclaimed. "Why did Gary want especially to be the elephant?" "I don't know," Chris answered. "Remember, if you can," urged Whiteface. "It will help me to prove to every one that Gary is our boy." "I guess it was because he knew something about el'funts," Danny ventured.
"He knew that el'funts' tails are small and round like a rope, but he didn't know how he knew." "I see," said the clown. "That is an important fact. I'm glad you told me." "An' he said 'O Queen' when he saw the picture of the el'funt jumping the fence!" cried Danny excitedly. "Just the same as he did at the circus when the band stopped playin' an' before the el'funt picked him up."
He just had to stay and see if the elephant's ears fell off again. But Danny was equal to the occasion and tied the cap on with a piece of string. "Celia Jane, you just come back here," he called. "I guess the elephant has to enter the circus ahead of the horse. Horses always get scared of el'funts unless they're behind where they can see them.
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