"Wait! don't run away! You will not be hurt!" called the tame elephants to Tum Tum, and the other wild ones.
But the wild elephants did not want to be caught. They did not know they would be kindly treated by their masters. All the wild elephants wanted to do was to get away. So with Tum Tum and Mr. Boom at their head, away they rushed through the jungle.
All at once the rushing herd of wild elephants came to a fence in the jungle. It was a strong fence, made of big bamboo trees stuck in the ground. It was such a strong fence that even Mr. Boom, try as he did, could not break it down. When he found that after one or two blows from his head would not break the fence, he called out to the other elephants:
"Never mind the fence! We can't break through it, so we'll run along beside it. Maybe there'll be a hole in it somewhere."
So the elephants rushed through the jungle, alongside of the fence, just as you might do, until you came to a gate, or hole. That was what Mr. Boom was looking for—a hole in the fence.
But he did not see any. In fact, this fence was a trap, and soon Mr. Boom and the other elephants knew this.
"Run away from the fence! Run over this way!" called Mr. Boom.
The elephants ran, but soon they saw another fence in front of them—a fence as strong as the first one. Mr. Boom and some of the strong elephants, including Tum Tum, tried to break it down, but they could not. If they had all gotten together, and pushed at one spot, they might have broken it, but they pushed in different places, and the fence held them back.