He was always finding fault, it seemed.
Into the water splashed the five elephant children. They went out where it was about deep enough to come up to their ears, and then they sucked water up in their trunks and sprayed it over their backs, to drive away the flies and[Pg 17] gnats that bit them. Then they swam out into deep water, and rolled and tumbled about, having great fun. They splashed each other, squirted water all over, and soon were as cool as cucumbers on ice.
All at once, through the jungle, there sounded a loud trumpeting.
"Hark!" cried Whoo-ee, as he stopped squirting water on Thorny. "What's that?"
"It's Mr. Boom signaling that there's danger!" cried Tum Tum.
ContentsTum 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!" exclaimed Whoo-ee, "you don't want to be caught in a trap, do you?"
"Of course not," said Gumble-umble.
"And you don't want a hunter to shoot you, or to carry you away far off somewhere, do you?"
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