“What! That jolly elephant in the circus?” asked Don, himself quite excited now.
“That’s the one,” answered Dido. “I was in the circus a little while when it showed in Madison Square Garden, in New York, and there I met Tum Tum. He spoke about you, and said you had had many adventures.”
“So I have,” Don said. “I am a runaway dog, that is, I once was, and there is a book telling all about me,” he added, proudly.
[CHAPTER VIII]
DIDO HELPS A GIRL
“See how friendly our dogs are with the dancing bear,” said Alice, the girl, to Bob, the boy.
“Our bear is very good and tame, and he likes good dogs,” spoke George.
“Where did you get him?” asked the boy, for the automobile tire was not yet fixed, and they still had to wait beside the country road.
“I caught Dido on top of a mountain, in the woods, in a far country,” said the man. “I put some honey in a box and when he went in to get it the door fell shut and he could not get out. Then I trained him, and brought him to this country. He was a little fellow then, and he used to growl at me, but now he likes me, I think, for I try to be kind to him.”