Just then another elephant came along and Dorothy was glad to see that he was laughing. He stood right beside the crying elephant and he laughed so heartily that his sides shook. It was a very funny sight. Dorothy did not know just what to do, so she remained perfectly quiet and looked at them.
After a while the laughing elephant stopped a minute and making a very funny face, he said to the crying elephant:
“Tan’t oo find oo mammer?” Then he gave Dorothy a very naughty wink and laughed again. Dorothy could not help smiling at him. Suddenly he rolled on his back and the crying elephant ran away as fast as he could. Dorothy was very glad when he had gone and hoped he would find his mamma.
However, she was so very much interested in the funny elephant that she forgot about the other. The good-natured elephant did all kinds of wonderful tricks for her, laughing all the time. He stood on his head and put his hind feet right up in the air. Dorothy clapped her hands, and asked the elephant to do it again.
All at once he caught the little girl in his trunk and placed her carefully on his back. They trotted around and Dorothy had a splendid ride. Then he put her on the ground and tramped away. “O do come back!” she called after him, but just then the bronze woman with her jar appeared. “Did you get the water?” asked Dorothy.
“Yes, my child, and I carried it to my master’s house, now you must go home.” Dorothy got snugly into the jar again and the woman placed it on her head. Away they went through the still air towards home, and when they reached it the bronze woman tucked Dorothy in her little bed and left her.
CHAPTER V.
THE FAIRY BELL.
THERE was a pretty little silver bell on papa’s desk, but the children never knew that it was a fairy bell until one summer afternoon.