"I didn't know there was an elephant on this ship," thought Mappo. But he was soon to find out there was.
Two or three days after this Mappo was let out of his cage once more. This time he did not jump and run. He stayed quietly beside the sailor, and put his paw into the man's hand.
"That's the way to do it," said the sailor. "Come now, we'll go below and see Tum Tum."
Down into a deep part of the ship, near the bottom, the sailor took Mappo. Then the monkey could see a number of elephants chained to the walls. They were swaying their big bodies to and fro, and swinging their trunks. The sailor went up to the biggest elephant of them all, and, so Mappo thought, the most jolly-looking, and said:
"Tum Tum, I have brought some one to see you. Here is a little monkey."
Mappo looked up, and saw a jolly twinkle in the little eyes of Tum Tum. Mappo knew elephants were never unkind to monkeys, and, a moment later, Mappo had given a jump, up to the shoulder of the sailor, and then right on the back of Tum Tum.
CHAPTER VII
MAPPO IN THE CIRCUS