Right out of the ground the big elephant pulled the tree.
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"Oh, look!" cried the boy. "Here are our balloons, sister!"
"Oh, so they are!" exclaimed the little girl. "Oh, what a good elephant he is to get our balloons back for us!"
"I should say he was!" cried the papa. "That is a smart elephant you have," he said to the keeper.
"Yes, Tum Tum is very good and smart," said the circus man. He reached over, loosed the strings of the balloons from the tree branch, and gave the ends of the cords to the children.
"Now you may let go of the tree, Tum Tum," the man said to the elephant, and Tum Tum dropped the tree on the ground.
"Oh, papa, the elephant was so good to us, can't we buy him a bag of peanuts?" asked the little girl.
"I guess so," answered her papa, with a laugh.