“Yes, I do like you,” said Dido to himself. “He is good to me,” he added, speaking to the two dogs.
For though Dido, Don and Rex could understand most of the talk that went on, they themselves could not speak to the men, or to the boy or girl. Then the man told the boy and girl how Dido had learned to dance, just as I have told you in the first part of this book.
“Did it all happen that way?” asked Don, of Dido, for the dogs and bear were resting in the shade now.
“That’s just the way it happened,” Dido said. “I lived in the woods with my father and mother, and my brothers Gruffo and Muffo. But I like it here now better than in the woods.”
“And how is Tum Tum, the jolly elephant?” asked Don.
“Very well,” answered Dido, “and as fond of peanuts as ever.”
“Yes, he always did like them,” barked Don, “but, as for me, I never could see much in them. The shells get in my teeth.”
“Tum Tum eats them, shells and all,” Dido said.
“Well, remember me to him when next you see him,” went on the dog who had once run away. “Tell him I would like to see him again.”
“I shall,” Dido promised, “though I don’t know when I may meet him again. He is in the circus, you know, and I am traveling about the country. Still I may see him.”