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Updated: June 18, 2025
There is only one place that is quiet, and that is straight ahead. We must go that way! Forward!" And straight ahead rushed the elephants, toward the place where there was no noise. As they went on Mr. Stumptail looked to either side and saw where the two lines of fence came together into a place like a big ring, and the ring also had a fence around it. "Look, Tusker!" cried Umboo's father.
"I could not find my way back after I knocked over the tree. I met a rhinoceros, but he could not tell me where you were. Then I met a kind snake, and she showed me how to find you." "Well, don't get lost again," said Umboo's mother. "We are glad you have come back, for, as Tusker says, we are about to travel on, and we did not want to leave you behind.
"Are we listening to your story, Chako, or to Umboo's?" "Oh, that's so! I forgot!" exclaimed Chako. "Go on, Umboo. I won't talk any more." "Well, I won't either at least for a while," said Umboo. "For here come the keepers with our dinners. Let's eat instead of talking."
"Learn to behave yourself then," said Umboo's mother. "I'm going to tell my father on you!" cried the mischievous little elephant. "Well, it won't do you any good," said a heavy voice behind him, and there was Keedah's father himself swimming along. "I saw what you did to Umboo," went on the old gentleman elephant, "and Mrs. Stumptail did just right to tap you with her trunk.
"Quick, Umboo, come with me!" cried his mother. "That is Tusker calling us!" "What does he want?" asked Umboo. "He wants to tell us there is danger!" said Umboo's mother. "Hurry! Come with me back to the rest of the herd!" Not stopping to dig up any more roots, Umboo rushed off through the jungle after his mother, who hurried on ahead.
"I guess the only way to get the nuts is to break down the tree; but how can I do that?" he asked. "Your head is the strongest part of you," said Mrs. Stumptail. "See if you can knock the tree over." "Bang!" went Umboo's head against the tree. The tree shook and shivered, and a few nuts were knocked down, but not enough.
"But we won't go until he is strong enough," said Umboo's father. "Here," he said to Mrs. Stumptail, "eat this branch of palm nuts. They are good and sweet. Eat them while I go and see Old Tusker. I'll tell him not to start to lead the herd to another part of the jungle until Umboo is stronger."
People hardly ever ride on an African elephant's back." "Well, let us hear more of Umboo's story," suggested Humpo, the camel. "It seems to me everyone is talking but him." "That's so," spoke Horni, the rhinoceros. "Please go on, Umboo. Tell us about how you were lost in the jungle."
Of course Umboo did not know all that the man said to him, but he understood that something new was going on, and he reached out his trunk to touch his friend. "I haven't any sugar for you now," said the man with a laugh, "but I may have some later. Let me see how you behave." The men began putting ropes around Umboo's big neck.
Tusker stood on top of a little hill, his trunk high in the air, making all sorts of queer, trumpeting noises. "We were waiting for you," said Mr. Stumptail to Umboo's mother. "We are going to run away and hide. Tusker is calling you." "Well, tell him we are here now," said Mrs. Stumptail. "I had to give Umboo his lesson."
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