“He might break loose, and scratch me,” said Tum Tum.  “So don’t mention it to him.”

Mappo promised not to.  He sat up there on the elephant’s back a long time, and they talked of many things that had happened in the jungle woods.

“Well, you two seem to like each other so well that I guess I’ll leave you together,” said the sailor, when he came back and found Mappo asleep on Tum Tum’s back.  “I’ll bring the monkey’s cage down here,” the sailor went on, “and let him stay.  They might just as well get acquainted, for they’ll be together in the circus, anyhow.”

“That will be nice,” thought Mappo, as he heard what the sailor said.

Many things happened to Mappo aboard the ship in which he journeyed from the jungle to this country.  I have not room to tell you about all of them in this book.

Once there came a great storm, so that the big ship rolled and rocked like a rocking-chair, and Mappo felt ill.  So did Tum Tum, and the other elephants, and they made loud noises through their trunks.  Mappo and the other monkeys chattered with fear, and even Sharp-Tooth, the big striped tiger, in his cage, was afraid, and growled, while the lions roared like thunder.

But finally the storm passed, the sea grew calm and the animals felt better.  Then came a day when Mappo was shut up in his cage again.  Most of the time he had been loose, to run about as he pleased.

“I’m sorry to have to do it, old chap,” said his sailor friend, “but all you animals are going to be taken off the ship now, and put ashore, and we don’t want to lose you.”

“I don’t want to get lost, either,” said Mappo to himself.  “I wonder what is going to happen now.”

Many things happened to him, and also to Tum Tum and the others.  Mappo’s cage, as well as the cages holding the lions and tigers, were lifted off the ship onto land.  Then they were put on big wagons and carted off through a strange place.  At first Mappo thought it was a new kind of jungle, for he saw some trees.

But when Mappo saw many boys and girls, and men and women, all in strange dresses, not at all like the brown natives, and when he saw many houses, he knew it could not be a jungle.  No, it was a big city where Mappo had been taken.  And it was the city where the circus stayed in winter, the animals living in barns, and in menageries, instead of in tents.  But when the warm summer came, they would be taken out on the road, and sent from place to place with the traveling circus.  Of course, Mappo knew nothing of this yet.  Neither did Tum Tum.

Mappo’s cage, with a number of others, was finally put into a big barn, where it was nice and warm.  On the earth-floor of the barn was sawdust, and Mappo saw many men and horses, and many strange things.  Finally a man came up to Mappo’s cage.

“Ha!  So these are some of the monkeys I am to teach to do tricks, eh?” said the man.  “Well, they look like nice monkeys.  And that one seems a little tame.  I think I’ll begin on him,” and he pointed right at Mappo.