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Updated: August 14, 2024
"Can't we ever get out of the trap?" asked Umboo of his mother when Tusker and the others had found they could not knock down the stockade fence. "Can't we ever get out?" "And did you ever get out?" eagerly asked Snarlie, the tiger, who, with the other circus animals, listened to Umboo's story. "Did you ever get out of the trap, Umboo?" "Tell us about that part!" begged Woo-Uff, the lion.
"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?"
"Oh, yes we will," said Snarlie himself, a big, handsome striped tiger in a cage not far from where the monkeys lived. "You can tell us a good story, Umboo." "And make it as long as the story Woo-Uff, the lion, told us," begged Humpo, the camel. "I liked his story." "Thank you," spoke Woo-Uff, as he rolled over near the edge of his cage where he could hear better.
"Now I guess you have slid down hill enough, Umboo," said the elephant's mother to him. "It is all right to have some fun, but there are other things to do in the jungle besides that. You must learn a few things." "I had to learn things too," said Woo-Uff. "I had to learn how to creep up on fat goats, and knock them over with my big paws. There was an old lion named Boom-Boom, and he and I "
"Is there any one else who can tell a story?" asked Snarlie. "We will soon be traveling on again, but after that, when we settle down to rest, I should like to hear another tale." "I can tell about my jungle," said Chako. "We have had enough of jungles," said Woo-Uff. "Does any circus animal know any other kind of stories?"
Woo-Uff, the lion, laughed. "Ha! I wonder what makes that lion so jolly?" said one of the circus keepers. "Perhaps the elephant tickled him," suggested a second man. "Maybe he had a funny dream," spoke another. "Both wrong!" said Woo-Uff, in animal language that the other circus beasts could understand. "I was laughing at the way Umboo squirted water on the lemon-man."
I learned how later, though, and I liked the water. But this time my mother took me across the river on her back." "It's a good thing your mother didn't have a camel-back like Humpo," said Woo-Uff, with a sort of chuckling laugh. "Why?" asked Horni, the rhinoceros. "Because, if Mrs.
"No, it was not this one, but it was one like it," said the elephant. "I came here about a year ago." "I remember that time," said Snarlie. "I liked you as soon as I saw you, Umboo." "So did I," spoke Woo-Uff, the lion, stretching out his big paws. "Let us hear the rest of Umboo's story," suggested Chako, the monkey. "Did you like the circus?" "Indeed I did, very much," Umboo answered.
And when I did the cannon went 'Bang! And the band played, and the big drum went 'Boom! and the big horn went 'Umph-umph! and the boys and girls yelled like anything. It was lots of fun! "I liked that circus very much. I hope, someday, they'll let me shoot a cannon here." "Maybe they will," said Woo-Uff, the lion. "I should like to hear it. But is that all your story, Umboo?"
"Poor Jumbo was struck by one of those big puffing animals, of steam and steel and iron, that pull our circus train over the shiny rails." "You mean a choo-choo-locomotive-steam-engine," said Woo-Uff, the lion. "I suppose that is the name," said Umboo. "Anyhow, Jumbo was hit by an engine, and, big as he was, it killed him. His bones, or skeleton, are in a museum in New York now."
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