You'll like it here, Umboo."
"I'm sure I shall," he answered. "But what is that funny noise?"
"That is the music playing," answered Wang. "In the circus we do our
tricks to band music. It's more fun that way."
Umboo liked the music, and there was one man who played a big horn--
larger than himself, and the horn went: "Umph-umph!" just as Tusker
used to trumpet through his trunk.
Umboo and the other elephants were taken into the animal tent, and
placed around the outer ring, their legs chained to stakes driven in
the ground. In cages were monkeys, lions, tigers and other beasts of
the wood or jungle.
"Was it this circus of ours which you were first taken to, Umboo?"
asked Humpo. "I came here about a year ago."
"No, it was not this one, but it was one like it," said the elephant.
"I came here about a year ago."
"I remember that time," said Snarlie. "I liked you as soon as I saw
you, Umboo."
"So did I," spoke Woo-Uff, the lion, stretching out his big paws.
"Let us hear the rest of Umboo's story," suggested Chako, the monkey.
"Did you like the circus?"
"Indeed I did, very much," Umboo answered.
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