"Why, it ain't got no tail at all!" exclaimed Celia Jane.
True enough, there was no tail in evidence, as the elephant seemed to be
headed straight towards them. Jerry flushed as they all turned and
looked accusingly at him.
"Yah!" exclaimed Danny. "Mr. Smarty Know-it-all didn't know so much,
after all!"
"Mebbe you just can't see it, but it's there," suggested Nora.
"That's so," Danny reluctantly admitted. "A el'funt's so big that when
you stand right in front of it, its tail might not show at all, no
matter how big it was."
"A little tail wouldn't," Jerry said quickly.
"A big one wouldn't either," Celia Jane asserted, taking sides against
Jerry. "A el'funt's enough bigger to hide its tail."
"If it was very big it would show," said Jerry.
"The el'funt I play is goin' to have a tail all right," Danny informed
the children collectively. "I ain't goin' to all the work of makin' a
tail and then not wear it. I guess a el'funt's got some kind of a tail,
anyway."
CHAPTER IV
JERRY LEARNS THAT O-U-T SPELLS OUT
The first and, as it turned out, the last performance of their circus
took place that afternoon.
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