"Look here!" exclaimed Whoo-ee, "you don't want to be caught in a trap, do you?"
"Of course not," said Gumble-umble.
"And you don't want a hunter to shoot you, or to carry you away far off somewhere, do you?"
"You know I don't," and Gumble-umble did not speak quite so crossly this time.
"Well, then," said Whoo-ee, "let's do as Tum Tum is doing, and start for home. There must be some danger, or Mr. Boom wouldn't have called to us that way."
"Indeed he wouldn't," said Tum Tum, and he did not laugh in his jolly way now. "My mother told me to be sure and listen for a call from Mr. Boom. She said he would be looking for danger, and when he called, I was to hurry home."
Tum Tum was out on the bank of the river now. Gumble-umble was the last one of the elephants to come from the swimming pool.
"Let's hurry," said Tum Tum.
"That's what I say!" cried Thorny. "I don't want to be caught by some hunter."
The elephant children knew what hunters were, for their fathers and mothers had often told them about the natives who tried to catch elephants. Indeed, some of the older elephants had more than once been caught in traps, but they had gotten out.