Here is my
handkerchief, in my other pocket. I put it there to fool you!" and he
turned about so that the white cloth could be seen hanging down on the
other side of his coat.
"Ha! That's funny!" thought Umboo. "I did not know the man had two
pockets!"
Then the elephant pulled out the handkerchief again, and the man
laughed and gave him a extra large lump of sugar.
"Now come with me, Umboo," said the man, and he led him away, out of
the lumber yard.
"Where are you going?" called Keedah, and some of the other boys.
"I don't know," answered Umboo, in elephant talk, of course. "But I
heard the man say something about making me do tricks in a circus."
"Oh, then you are going to have a fine, time," said one of the
keonkies, or tame elephants, that help train the wild ones. "If you go
to the circus you will have fun. A friend of mine was once in one, and
then, in his old age, he came back to India to live. And he said he
never enjoyed himself so much as in a circus. And how he did used to
talk about the peanuts!"
"What are peanuts?" asked Umboo.
"I don't know," answered the keonkie, "but Zoop--that the was the name
of my friend--said they were almost as good as the sweet sugar and
palm nuts.
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