But best of all Dido liked Tum Tum, the jolly elephant.

“I met a friend of yours while I was out traveling,” said Dido to the circus elephant one day.

“Who was it?” asked Tum Tum.

“Don, the runaway dog.”

“Oh, do tell me about him,” begged Tum Tum, as he ate a bag of peanuts a little girl held out to him. So Dido told about meeting Don.


[CHAPTER XII]
DIDO IN A FIRE

“What else did you do besides meeting Don?” asked Tum Tum, when the dancing bear had finished telling about the runaway dog.

“Oh, many things happened to me,” said Dido. “I had many adventures, as many, I think, as would fill a book.”