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Updated: May 27, 2025
Oh, stop it!" cried the man excitedly, with the water squirting all over him. "Let him down now, Maggo," said Tum Tum, with a queer little twinkle, like laughter, in his eyes. "I guess he won't want to play any more tricks." Maggo set down the dripping man, who was glad enough to run away. He did not once look back. "It served you right, for giving Tum Tum lemons," said a keeper.
After that the animals' cages were never left open, even for a second. "Did you get very scratched?" asked Tum Tum of Maggo, when everything was once more quiet in the animal tent. "No, not much," answered the lady elephant. "I'm sorry I was not quick enough for the tiger," said Tum Tum. "Never mind, it is all over now."
The people yelled, and the trainers came running over to see what was the matter. They saw the man lifted high in the air in Maggo's trunk. "Put him down! Put him down at once!" cried Maggo's keeper. But Maggo was not going to do that at once. "Now is your chance, Tum Tum," said Maggo. "I'll hold this bad man, who gave you lemons instead of peanuts, and you can hit him with your trunk."
"I say, Maggo," called Tum Tum, in an elephant whisper. "I know how to get a cool drink." "How?" asked Maggo. "Now, don't play any joke on me. I could not bear that. I am so thirsty!" "No, this isn't a joke," said Tum Tum. "At least it isn't a joke on you. Come, we shall both have a drink. Put your trunk out over the side of the tent. On the ground outside is a big washtub, full of pink lemonade.
I guess he had forgotten about the trick he played. But Tum Tum and the other elephants had not forgotten. All of a sudden Maggo, the elephant standing next to Tum Tum, saw the bad man, and, reaching out her trunk, Maggo caught him around the waist, and lifted him off his feet. "Oh! Oh! Put me down! Oh, an elephant has me!" cried the man. Instantly there was great excitement in the animal tent.
Toward evening, when the show was over for the afternoon, Maggo and Tum Tum were allowed to roam about the animal tent a little, the chains being taken off their feet. "Now's our time, Maggo," whispered Tum Tum. "You go over by the lion's cage, and I'll stay by the tiger's." "All right, I will," said Maggo. Over she went to stand in front of the lion's cage.
So Tum Tum told Maggo, about the lion and tiger going to escape from the circus. "And if you'll stand in front of the lion's cage, he won't dare run very far," said Tum Tum to Maggo. "If you'll look after the lion, I'll look after the tiger." "All right," said Maggo, "I shall. It would not be right for those fierce animals to get away."
"After all, I am glad Tum Tum had it, for he has been a good elephant, and so has Maggo. I am glad they had it!" The other elephants wished they had had some also, but there was not enough to go around. The keeper paid the man for the lemonade the elephants had taken, and the man made another washtub full.
"Say, Tum Tum," said Maggo, "was that his lemonade we drank?" "I I guess it must have been," said Tum Tum. "But I didn't know it belonged to anybody. I thought it was just standing there in the tub, and that we might as well take it as anyone else." "Well, it's too bad if we've taken the poor man's lemonade, that he was going to sell for money," said Maggo. "Yes, it is," agreed Tum Tum.
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