Chapter II: Tum Tum Is Caught

CHAPTER II TUM TUM IS CAUGHT Tum Tum, and the other elephants who were in swimming, made no more noise than a fly walking up the window. They all kept quiet and listened. Through the jungle again sounded the trumpet call: "Umph! Umph! Boom! Boom! Toom!" "That sure means danger!" cried Tum Tum. "Come on! We had better go back to where our fathers and mothers are." "Indeed we had!" said Thorny, as she and Zunga waded to the shore, water dripping from them. "That's always the way!" complained Gumble-umble. "Just as we are having fun, something has to happen." "Look here!"