"Never mind, I'll get you some others," said the man.
"But I'd rather have that one," the little boy said, half crying.
"I would, too," added his sister.
Just then the wind blew the two balloons into the top of a tall tree. It was a tall, slender tree, too little for any one to climb up, or put a ladder against.
"Oh, now we can never get our balloons!" sobbed the little girl, as the toys bobbed about in the wind, the strings fast to a tree branch. Then Tum Tum made up his mind, just as he had done at the peanut fire.
"I'll get those balloons back for the children," thought the big, kind, jolly elephant.