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Updated: June 15, 2025
At first the elephant, who, not long before, had been wild in the jungle, and later piling teakwood logs, was uneasy and a bit frightened. So were his companions. "But don't be afraid, Umboo," said the kind man who had come all the way from India with the elephant. "You will soon like it here, though you may not like being taught tricks.
"Oh, did she let you fall?" suddenly asked Chako, who, with the other animals in the circus tent, was eagerly listening to the story Umboo was telling. "Did she let you fall?" "Look here!" cried Snarlie, the tiger, when Chako, the monkey, had asked his question. "Look here, Chako! You mustn't interrupt like that when Umboo is talking! Let him tell his story, just as you let me tell mine.
While Umboo was standing in line, with the other elephants, waiting until it was time for them to go in the big tent, and perform their tricks, such as standing on their hind legs and getting up on small barrels, our jungle friend saw a man coming toward him with a bag in his hand. And, all at once Umboo remembered something. He looked sharply at the man and thought: "Ha!
"I know what I'm going to do when I get on the other shore," spoke Keedah, as once more he swam up along side of Umboo and his mother. "What?" asked the little elephant who was having such a nice ride across the river. "What are you going to do?" "I am going to have a slide down hill," went on Keedah, who did not seem to be going to make any more trouble.
The crashing noises sounded more plainly now, and the elephant smell became stronger. Then, as he burst his way through the bushes, Umboo saw the other elephants standing together in a little clearing in the jungle, and Umboo's mother seemed to be talking to them. "Ha!" suddenly cried Keedah, the larger elephant boy, as he saw the lost one. "Here he comes now! Here is Umboo!" Mrs.
"I will," said Umboo, and this is the story he told. Umboo was only one of a number of baby elephants that lived with their fathers and mothers in the deep, green jungles of India. Not like the other jungle beasts were the elephants, for the big animals had no regular home. They did not live in caves as did the lions and tigers, for no cave was large enough for a herd of elephants.
"More trouble?" "Another fence!" cried the old elephant. "The jungle is full of strong fences! We can not go this way, either!" "What can we do?" asked Umboo. "There is a fence behind us, and now one in front of us. What can we do?" "Let me think a minute," said Tusker. "I fear there is danger on both sides of us."
But either he did not go the right way, or two showers ago was longer than either he or the rhinoceros thought, for Umboo did not even smell the other elephants, much less see them or hear them. "Oh, dear!" thought Umboo again. "I'm surely lost as bad as before! What shall I do?" He stood and looked about him in the dripping wet jungle.
Rhino said "two showers ago," instead of "two hours," you see, because the jungle animals have no clocks or watches, and they tell time by the sun, or by the number of rain-showers in a day. And Umboo knew that very well, so he knew about how long ago it was that the rhinoceros had heard the loud sounds of which he spoke. "Oh, so you heard the elephants, did you?" exclaimed Umboo.
There are many kinds of palm trees, and on some grow cocoanuts, and on others dates; but the palm nuts the elephants eat are different. Umboo looked up at the palm nuts growing on the tree in the jungle, and said: "Oh, how I wish I had some of those." "Well," said Mrs. Stumptail, "how do you think you can get them?"
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