One day Tum Tum was taken away from the rest of the herd, and he did not even have a chance to say good-by. He was led up what seemed to be a little bridge, and Tum Tum was afraid it would fall with him. But it did not.
Next he walked down into a dark place, and he found other elephants there. Some of them he knew.
"Where are we, and where are we going?" he asked.
"We are in a ship, and we are being taken across the ocean to a circus," answered Whoo-ee, who was one of the elephants in the dark place, which was the inside of a steamship.
"A circus! Good!" cried Tum Tum. "Now I shall know how a peanut tastes."
The ship began to move and rock. It rocked and swayed for many days, for it was on the ocean. And then, one day, a sailor came down to see the elephants. He brought with him a queer little animal, with thick, brown hair. And this animal chattered in jungle talk.
"Ha! I seem to know who that is!" thought Tum Tum.
"Chatter! Chatter! Chat! Chur-r-r-r-r-r!" went the little brown-haired animal, as he sprang from the arms of the sailor.
"Umph! Umph!" trumpeted Tum Tum.
Then the little brown monkey, for such it was, gave a jump from the arms of the sailor, and landed up on the back of the elephant.