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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Seems to me I have seen you before, somewhere, little monkey," said Sharp-Tooth. "Yes, you you tried to eat me, if you please," said Mappo, who spoke politely, because he was still afraid of the tiger. "Did I?" asked the tiger. "Well, I have to live, you know. And I have eaten so many monkeys that one, more or less, doesn't matter. So I tried to eat you, eh? I wonder why I didn't finish.
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.
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.
When the cage, in which Sharp-Tooth, the tiger, was pacing up and down, came along, the big striped beast growled and roared, and to Mappo it sounded just as if he were saying: "Where's that monkey? Oh, wait until I get hold of him! He wouldn't let me out of my cage, and I'll fix him!"
So, after all, he did not have to play any trick on the tiger, and not let Sharp-Tooth out, and he was glad of it. "Hist! Hist!" the tiger called, from his crate, near that of Mappo. "Aren't you going to let me out?" "I can't get out myself," answered the little monkey. "Bur-r-r-r-r! Wow! Wuff!" roared the tiger.
"Let who know?" asked Mappo. "Sharp-Tooth, the tiger. Don't tell him I'm here," Tum Tum said. "Why not?" the little monkey wanted to know. "Well, because he and I aren't friends," said Tum Tum. "You know in the jungle, hunters sometimes ride on the backs of myself, and my elephant friends, to hunt tigers. That's why the tigers don't like us.
Once there came a great storm, so that the big ship rolled and rocked like a rocking-chair, and Mappo felt ill. So did Tum Tum, and the other elephants, and they made loud noises through their trunks. Mappo and the other monkeys chattered with fear, and even Sharp-Tooth, the big striped tiger, in his cage, was afraid, and growled, while the lions roared like thunder.
All the other animals who had made different noises when they heard the racket made by Sharp-Tooth, grew quiet also. Mappo went back to sleep, after trying once more to open his crate so he could get away in the jungle. "I guess I shall have to let them put me on the house in the big water," he said to himself. "Never mind, I may have some fine adventures."
"I wonder what has become of Sharp-Tooth, the big tiger?" asked Mappo, of one of the other monkeys. "Oh, I saw them lower his cage down into another part of the ship," said a big monkey. "I am glad of it, too, for I don't like him so near us. He might break out some night, and bite us." "He wanted me to let him out," said Mappo. "Gracious!
Sharp-Tooth was in his own cage and could not reach Mappo. For this the monkey was very glad. All the black men who had carried the wild animals through the jungle had gone now. In their places were white men, quite different. Mappo did not know which he liked better, but the white men seemed to be kind, for some of them brought food and water to the animals.
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