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I'm not going to run any more!" complained Gumble-umble. "I don't believe there is any danger, anyhow." "Oh, but there must be," said Tum Tum, who, with Whoo-ee, was hurrying along beside his play-fellow. "Otherwise they wouldn't make us go so fast," and he pointed with his trunk to Mr. Boom, and some of the older men elephants, who were leading the herd.
Better not tell Julie, she is so nervous, and I'm sure Margaret would want to fetch along our only two town police officers, she is so practical. There they are the girls, I mean. See them just turning around 'B' street? Coo-ee Whoo-ee!" called Cleo, her hand cupped to her lips to send out the yodle.
Whoo-ee!" Aunty Boone slowly settled down beside the cypress, with her face toward her beloved "desset," and when we went to her a little later, her eyes, still looking eastward, saw nothing earthly any more forever. Jondo's face seemed glorified as he caught Aunty Boone's last words, and his voice was sweet and clear as he looked up at Eloise bending over him. "Thank God!
Then they swam out into deep water, and rolled and tumbled about, having great fun. They splashed each other, squirted water all over, and soon were as cool as cucumbers on ice. All at once, through the jungle, there sounded a loud trumpeting. "Hark!" cried Whoo-ee, as he stopped squirting water on Thorny. "What's that?" "It's Mr. Boom signaling that there's danger!" cried Tum Tum.
Come, Whoo-ee come, Gumble-umble! We will smash down the fence!" But one of the tame elephants, who heard what Tum Tum said, called to him, and spoke: "Oh, brother. Do not break down the fence." "Why not?" asked Tum Tum, who could easily understand the language of the tame elephant. "Why should I not break the fence, and let my friends, and my father and mother, out of this trap. Why not?"
We sat in silence for a long time, for nobody cared to talk. Presently we heard Aunty Boone's low, penetrating voice inside the wagon corral: "You pore gob of ugliness! Yo' done yo' best, and it's green corn and plenty of watah and all this grizzly-gray grass you can stuff in now. It's good for a mule to start right, same as a man. Whoo-ee!"
"What happened, Tum Tum?" asked a third elephant. "Are you playing one of your tricks?" some one else wanted to know. Tum Tum looked up from where he lay on his back in the bushes. He saw Whoo-ee, Gumble-umble, Thorny and Zunga looking at him, their mouths wide open, laughing. And then, instead of getting angry, and being cross, Tum Tum just laughed himself, such a jolly laugh! "Ha!
I'll pull up another tree, and fall again, Gumble-umble, so you can see me do it, if you like." "No, don't. You might hurt yourself," said Thorny, the other girl elephant. "Pooh!" cried Tum Tum. "I'm not afraid!" "Well, never mind about pulling up more trees now," said Whoo-ee. "We called you to come out, and have some fun with us. We are going swimming."
Bev, you see me comin', hot streaks, to help you out. Whoo-ee!" She breathed her weird, African whoop and turned away. "I'll depend on you." Beverly's face was bright, and there was no shadow in his eyes, as he called after her retreating form.
Surely enough, there was a little hole in the tent, right over Bunny's cot, and the rain was coming in there. "Swish!" went the lightning. "Bang!" went the thunder. "Whoo-ee!" blew the wind. It was certainly a bad storm at Camp Rest-a-While. "Daddy! Daddy!" cried Sue, from behind the curtain, in the part of the tent where she slept with her mother. "Daddy, do you think we'll blow away?"
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