"Yes, it is," agreed Tum Tum. "But we can't help it now."
"Yes," spoke Maggo. "We can't do anything."
Just then the man who owned the lemonade looked up, and saw the trunks of the two elephants sticking out over the top of the tent. The man guessed what had happened.
"Ha! They took my lemonade!" the man cried. "They sucked it up through their trunks. Oh, they took my lemonade, and I'll make the circus pay for it!"
Tum Tum's keeper heard the noise the man was making, and came running up.
"What is the matter?" asked the circus man.
"Oh, yoy! Yoy!" cried the man. "Your elephants took all my pink lemonade, from the washtub where I had ice in it! They sucked it up in their rubber-hose trunks!"
"Tum Tum, did you and Maggo do that?" asked the keeper.
Tum Tum could not answer, of course. But the circus man looked at Tum Tum's long, white ivory tusks, and on one of them were some splashes of pink lemonade.
"Yes, Tum Tum, you did it," said the man. "Well, I won't punish you, for you did not know any better, I suppose."