“I don’t expect to have,” answered Sharp Eyes. “It is no fun to be shut up in a cage. I wish I could walk around loose, like you.”
“I guess I’m too big to be in a cage,” said Tum Tum, “though they have sort of cages for elephants in the parks. Well, good-bye! Maybe I’ll see you again.”
“I hope so,” replied Sharp Eyes, who liked the big, jolly chap.
So the elephant went to push the circus wagons, and the train puffed away with the silver fox.
All the while, as the train rumbled on, Sharp Eyes wondered where he was being taken.
“If my silver fur is worth so much,” thought Sharp Eyes, “I suppose they are carrying me to some place where they can take it off. I shall not like that. I want my fur left on. I’ll be cold in the winter without my nice fur coat.”
Sometimes hunting dogs were brought into the same car with Sharp Eyes. The dogs became very much excited when they saw the fox in his cage, and barked at him. But they could not get at him, for the cage was made of heavy wire. Still, Sharp Eyes did not like to be barked at.
“Why don’t you be quiet and let me alone?” he asked the dogs, in animal talk.
“Oh, we are hunting dogs and we always bark at a fox,” said one of the dogs.