“Very well and jolly,” answered Sharp Eyes.
“Oh, he always was that,” said another elephant. “Tum Tum never was cross or unhappy.”
“I was unhappy when my paw was caught in a pinching trap,” said Sharp Eyes. “I hope I shall be happy here.”
“We’ll try to make you so,” put in a long-necked giraffe, looking over the tops of the walls of his cage, in which he was kept next to the elephants. “We are always glad to see new animals come in,” went on the giraffe. “We get sort of lonesome just among ourselves. Tell us, have you had any adventures?”
“No, not any, I’m sorry to say.”
“Oh, yes you have!” chattered Chacko, the monkey, to whom the fox had talked in the train. “You’ve had lots of adventures! You found a wild turkey, and you got out of one trap and into another, and you were chased by a dog.”
“Are those adventures?” asked Sharp Eyes, in surprise.
“Of course,” answered Bunga, the elephant. “Please tell us about them.”
So Sharp Eyes told the zoo animals all that had happened to him.