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Updated: June 10, 2025
Mappo did not understand very much of this talk. No monkey could. But Mappo did understand the word "eat," and he wondered when the man was going to feed him, for Mappo was hungry. All around the circus barn different animals were being taught tricks, for the men were training them to be ready for the summer circus in the big tents.
In one was a big striped tiger, and when Mappo saw him, the monkey crouched down in a corner of his box and covered his eyes with his paws. "Oh, maybe it's the same tiger that tried to catch me, and whom I hit on the head with the empty cocoanut," thought Mappo. "If it is, he'll be very angry at me, and try to get me. "Oh dear! This is too bad. I guess this is the end of me!" Mappo cried.
All of a sudden the tiger growled, and Mappo shivered still more. "Ha! Growl and roar as much as you like!" called one of the black natives. "You can't get out of there, Sharp-Tooth!" That was the name the jungle men had given the tiger. "You can't get out of that crate!" went on the native, and when Mappo heard that, he took down his paws once more, and looked at the tiger.
That was why he was called Bumpo he was always bumping his head, though it did not hurt him very much, for he was covered with a heavy growth of hair. "Well, what is it, if you know?" asked Mappo, for he was looking at the big, round, brown thing, and trying to guess what it was.
For nearly a week the circus traveled from town to town, Mappo doing his tricks very well indeed. Once again Sharp-Tooth, the tiger, said to the monkey chap: "Oh, wait until I get hold of you. I was nearly out of my cage last night. To-night I'll be out for sure, and then I'll fix you!" Poor Mappo was frightened.
Squinty looked at the beautiful wagons, and at the strange animals, some with big humps on their backs. At last he saw some very big creatures, and he cried out: "Oh, Mappo! What are those animals? They have a tail at each end!" "Those are elephants," said Mappo, "and they do not have two tails.
"Are we on the ship, or water-house, now?" asked Mappo, as he felt as though he were being moved along. "Yes, we are on a ship, and we'll never see the jungle any more," said the tiger. "Oh wow!" and he roared very loudly. "Quiet there!" called one of the white men, and he banged with his stick on the tiger's cage. The tiger growled, and lay down.
Each piece was a little way beyond the next one, and Mappo kept on walking along slowly as he picked them up. Finally he saw a very large piece. He reached for it with his paw, and then, all at once something happened. Something like a big spider's web seemed to fall down out of a tree right over Mappo. In an instant he was all tangled up his paws and tail were caught.
Then Jacko let go, and started to climb down the tree to the little platform in front of the monkey house. But Mappo was not done with his jokes. He scrambled down faster than did Jacko, and finally, when Jacko was not looking, Mappo grasped the end of his brother's tail, and gave it a hard pinch. "Ouch! Oh dear! Mamma, the tiger's got me!" cried Jacko. "Ha! Ha!
He looked at it through the slats of his crate. A little way out from shore he saw what looked like a big house floating on the water. This was the ship. Soon, in small boats, all the animals were taken aboard the ship, Mappo among them.
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