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Updated: June 15, 2025
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.
He had seen big boats come up the river, near where he worked, to get lumber, and some of the elephants, who had been down near the ocean shore, said those boats were ships. And of course Umboo did not know what it meant to be seasick. However he liked the circus man, and when the elephant boy came out of the stable he felt around with his trunk in the man's pocket.
"What are you doing that for?" "Oh, just to have some fun," answered Umboo and Batu, laughing as they ran off. "Well, I'll show you some more fun!" cried Keedah, as he scrambled up the river bank, and ran after the other two elephant boys, his trunk raised high in the air. Umboo and Batu ran as fast as they could, of course, and Keedah raced after them.
The tent was taken down, horses were hitched to the wagons, and away went the whole, big circus on a train to the next town where the show was to be given. "It's too bad!" exclaimed Horni, the rhinoceros, who had a big horn on the end of his nose. "It's too bad, Umboo! I wanted to hear you tell about sliding down hill." "I'll tell you tomorrow," said the elephant.
"I thought we were to listen to Umboo's story." "That's right we were," said Snarlie. "I'm sorry I talked so much. But I was telling Chako about the books we are in, Woo-Uff." "Yes, books are all well enough," said the lion, "but give me a good piece of meat. Now go on, Umboo. What was it Chako asked?"
So Umboo, the two-hundred-pound baby elephant, lived with his mother in the jungle, drinking nothing but milk for the first six months, as he had no teeth to chew even the most tender grass. "Well, are you strong enough to walk along now?" Umboo's mother asked him one day in the jungle, and this was when he was about half a week old.
"Once I was caught in a trap, but it was made of a net, with ropes of bark. It was then that Gur, the kind boy, gave me a drink of water." "And I was in a trap also," spoke Snarlie, the striped tiger. "I fell into a deep pit. It was almost like your trap, Umboo, except that the sides were of dirt, and the pit was very deep. I could not jump out.
But as soon as we heard the gun, and when I gave a blast through my trunk, as I felt myself hurt, then all the herd knew what had happened, and away we rushed, just as we are rushing now. We went very fast." "Did the hunter get any of you?" asked Umboo. "Not that time. I was the only one hit," said Bango. "But another time five or six of the herd I was with were killed by hunters."
To his surprise, Umboo found other elephants there also, and from various parts of the ship came the smell of many different wild animals camels, sacred cows from India, a rhinoceros, a buffalo and many strange beasts. For this was a circus ship, and was bringing to America many strange birds and animals from the jungle.
With him, however, were many of the wild elephants he had known when the herd was in the jungle. Keedah was one of these elephants. "I don't like it here at all!" snarled Keedah, when he had been led up beside Umboo, a few days after they had all been caught in the trap. "I don't like it, and I'm not going to stay!" "What are you going to do?" asked Umboo.
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