Two or three days after that something else happened to Tum Tum, and it made him very happy.
He was in the tent, after the show, eating his hay, and blowing dust over his back now and then to keep away the flies and mosquitoes, when, all of a sudden, in came a monkey. Tum Tum gave one look at the monkey, and then another look.
"Why—why!" cried Tum Tum, in elephant language. "That looks like Mappo."
"I am Mappo!" cried the little chap. "Oh, don't let him get me!"
"Let who get you?" cried Tum Tum. "What is the matter?" for Mappo looked very frightened.
"The hand-organ man is after me!" chattered Mappo, and with that he gave a jump, and landed right upon Tum Tum's broad back.
"Don't be afraid," said the elephant. "No one will get you while I am here, Mappo," and Tum Tum swung his long trunk.
Then in came the hand-organ man after the monkey, just as I have told you he did in the book about Mappo. But the circus men and Tum Tum would not let Mappo go. And Tum Tum looked so big and fierce and strong that the hand-organ man was afraid to try to take Mappo away.
So that is how Mappo came back to the circus again, after having had many adventures. He told Tum Tum all about them.
"Are you going to run away again?" asked Tum Tum.