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Updated: June 17, 2025
He sat up there on the elephant's back a long time, and they talked of many things that had happened in the jungle woods. "Well, you two seem to like each other so well that I guess I'll leave you together," said the sailor, when he came back and found Mappo asleep on Tum Tum's back. "I'll bring the monkey's cage down here," the sailor went on, "and let him stay.
"Oh, papa!" cried a little boy, "couldn't we ride on the elephant's back?" and he was so excited, this little boy was, that he danced up and down with his red balloon. All the children had these toy balloons. "Oh, I don't believe you could ride on the elephant's back," said the little boy's papa. "They can, if you will let them," said Tum Tum's keeper.
"Oh, that's because they liked your tricks," was the answer. "They always clap and stamp their feet when anything pleases them. They do that when I dance on the platform on Tum Tum's back." And, surely enough, the circus crowds did. They liked the tricks of Dido, the dancing bear, as much as they had those of Nero.
The sailor who had brought Mappo down to see the elephants, smiled as he saw Tum Tum making friends with him. "I guess I'll leave them together," said the sailor. So Mappo went to sleep on Tum Tum's big back. The monkey had not slept very long, before he was suddenly awakened, by finding himself almost sliding off. "What is the matter, Tum Tum?" asked Mappo.
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