"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.
Then he told how he stood in the ring, and watched the boys and girls, and the men and women, come in to look at the animals before they went in the main tent, to sit down and watch the performers and animals do their tricks and "stunts."
Boys and girls, and some grown-folk, too, gave the elephants peanuts and bits of popcorn balls which the big fellows liked very much, indeed.
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! There is the fellow who gave me the sour lemon inside the lump of sugar. Now is my chance to play a trick on him."