"I'm coming!" trumpeted Tum Tum, and then he came to another tree that stood in his path.
"I guess I'll have to knock this out of the way," he thought to himself, and he lowered his strong head and started toward it.
"Crack!" went his head against the tree, but the tree did not break. It was very strong.
"Humph!" thought Tum Tum. "I guess I'll have to pull you up by the roots if I can't break you off."
So he wound his trunk around the tree. Then he pulled and he pulled and he pulled some more until, all of a sudden, the tree came up by the roots.
It came up so quickly that Tum Tum tumbled over backwards, head over heels.
"Smash!" down in the bushes went Tum Tum, holding up the tree in his trunk.
"Ha! Ha!" came an elephant laugh from the jungle in front of Tum Tum.
"Oh, just look at him!" a voice called.
"What happened, Tum Tum?" asked a third elephant.